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COLLECTION 


UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
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ROYAL DOCUMENTS, AND REFERENCE BOOKS 
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ILLUMINATED XIVTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT 
FROISSART—CHRONICLES 


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[No. 19] 


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ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF J 


FARLY PRINTED BOOKS, RARE MANUSCRIPTS 
ROYAL DOCUMENTS, AND REFERENCE BOOKS 


THE FAMOUS 
WILLIAM C. VAN ANTWERP COLLECTION 


OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 


TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE OR RESTRICTION 
BY ORDER OF MR. WILLIAM C. VAN ANTWERP 
ON MONDAY, MAY IST, IQ 22 
AT 8:15 O CLOCK IN THE EVENING 


THE SALE TO BE CONDUCTED BY 
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY AND HIS ASSISTANTS, OF 
THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Manacers 
NEW YORK CITY 
1922 


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1. Rejection of Bids. Any bid which is not commensurate with the value of the article 
offered or which is merely a nominal or fractional advance may be rejected by the auctioneer 
if in his judgment such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. 


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more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide the same or put up for resale the lot so in dispute. 


3. Identification and Part Payment by Buyer. The name of the buyer of each lot 
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card giving the lot number, amount for which sold, and his or her name and address. 
Payment at the actual time of the sale shall be made of all or such part of the purchase 
prices as may be required. 
If the two foregoing conditions are not complied with, the lot or lots so purchased may at 
the option of the auctioneer be put up again and resold. 


4. Risk After Purchase. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer and 
thereafter neither the consignor nor the Association is responsible for the loss or any damage 
to any article occasioned by theft, fire, breakage or any cause. 


5. Delivery of Purchases. Delivery of any purchases will be made only upon payment 
of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. 

Deliveries will be made at the place of sale or at the storage warehouse to which purchases 
may have been removed. 

Deliveries at the American Art Galleries will be made only between the hours of nine a. m. 
and one p. m. on sales’ days and on other days—except holidays, when no deliveries will be 
made—between the hours of nine a. m. and five p. m. 

Deliveries at places of sale other than the American Art Galleries will be made only during 
the forenoon following the day of sale unless by special notice or arrangement to the contrary. 

Deliveries at the Storage warehouse to which goods may have been sent will be made on any 
day other than holidays between the hours of nine and five. 

Deliveries of any purchases of small articles likely to be lost or mislaid may be made at the 
discretion of the auctioneer during the session of the sale at which they were sold. 


6. Storage in Default of Prompt Payment and Calling for Goods. Articles not 
paid for in full and either not called for by the purchaser or delivered upon his or her order by 
noon of the day following that of the sale will be turned over by the Association to some carter 
to be carried to and stored in some warehouse until the time of the delivery therefrom to the 
purchaser, and the cost of such cartage and storage will be charged against the purchaser and 
the risk of loss or damage occasioned by such removal or storage will be upon the purchaser. 


Note: The limited space of the Delivery Rooms of the Association makes the above require- 
ments necessary, and it is not alone for the benefit of the Association, but also for that of its pa- 
trons, whose goods otherwise would have to be so crowded as to be subject to damage and loss. 


7. Shipping. Boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in which the Association is in 
no wise engaged, and will not be performed by the Association for purchasers. The Association 
will, however, afford to purchasers every facility for employing at current and reasonable 
rates carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any assumption of responsibility on its 
part for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for such service. 


8. Guaranty. The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot correctly and 
endeavors therein and also at the actual time of sale to point out any error, defect or imperfec- 
tion, but guaranty is not made either by the owner or the Association of the correctness of 
the description, genuineness, authenticity or conditicn of any lot and no sale will be set aside 
on account of any incorrectness, error of cataloguing or imperfection not noted or pointed 
out. Every lot is sold “as is” and without recourse. 

Every lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, and the Association will 
give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy expert to the effect that any lot has been 
incorrectly catalogued and in its judgment may thereafter sell the lot as catalogued or make 
mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby will become responsible for such damage 
as might result were his opinion without foundation. 


9. Buying on Order. Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on 
orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph or telephone will be faithfully attended to without 
charge or commission. Any purchases so made will be subject to the foregoing conditions of 
sale except that in the event of purchases consisting of one or more books for one who has not 
himself or through his agent been personally at the exhibition or sale, any book may be re- 
turned within ten days of the date of sale and will be refunded the purchase money therefor, 
if the book in any material manner differs from its catalogue description. 

Orders for execution by the Association should be written and given with such plainness as 
to leave no room for misunderstanding. Not only should the lot number be given, but also the 
title, and bids should be stated to be so much for the lot, and when the lot consists of one or 
more volumes of books or objects of art, the bid per volume or piece should also be stated. If 
the one transmitting the order is unknown to the Association, a deposit should be sent or 
reference submitted. Shipping directions should also be given. 

Priced copies of the catalogue of any sale or any session thereof, will be furnished by the 
Association at charges commensurate with the duties involved in copying the necessary 
information from the records of the Association. 


AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION 
American Art Galleries 
Madison Square South 
New York City 


At THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 


UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE OF THE FAMOUS 
WILLIAM C. VAN ANTWERP COLLECTION 
OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS 
ROYAL DOCUMENTS, AND REFERENCE BOOKS 
TO BE SOLD BY ORDER OF MR. VAN ANTWERP 


ON MONDAY EVENING, MAY Ist, AT 8:15 O’*}CLOCK 


Revi/s ed 
O-K, WILLIAM CAXTON 
WESTMINSTER, Circa 1475-1478 


FWS50\001. CHAUCER (GEOFFREY). THe CANTERBURY TALES. 


Small folio, full brown crushed French levant morocco, lettered in 
gilt on front and back, with L. W. Hodson’s initials within gilt 
ornament in center of front cover, BY D. COCKERELL, 1900. 


[See Illustration on second page following] 


First EDITION. 

COLLATION: Type 2; fragment of 65 leaves, 29 lines; 236 by 185 mm. 

ConpiTIon: Three leaves are defective. 

REFERENCES: Blades, No. 9; Hain, No. 4921; Copinger, Vol. I, p. 154; 
Ames-D1ibdin, Vol. I, pp. 291-295; De Ricct, No. 22. 

Corres LocaTep: No perfect copy of Caxton’s first edition of the Can- 
terbury Tales exists, although the British Museum copy, which was James 
West’s and afterward King George's, lacks only the blanks. The Oxford 
(Merton College) copy has been made complete with leaves from the Spencer 
copy. 

This is the copy listed by De Ricci as No. 22 under item No. 22 (page 27), 
as formerly owned by L. W. Hodson of Compton Hall, Wolverhampton, and 
comprises the following portion of the work: 


The Second Nonnes Tale, 

The Tales of the Canon’s Yeoman, 
The Doctor of Physick’s Tale, 
The Pardoner’s Tale, 

The Ryme of Sir Topaz, 

The Prioresse’s Tale, and 
Chawcer’s Tale 


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Monday Evening, May 1st 


WILLIAM CAXTON 
WESTMINSTER, JULY 2, 1482 


1700\002. HIGDEN (RANULPH). Potycuronicon. [A .] Prohemye | Grete 


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thankynges lawde & honoure we merytoryous- |ly ben bounde to 
yelde and offre vnto wryters of hys- |toryes, whiche gretely haue 
prouffyted oure mortal |lyf . .. |[449% Colophon.] . . . Ended the 
second day of Iuyll the xxii yere of |the regne of kynge Edward the 
fourth & of the Incarnacion of |oure lord a thousand four honderd 
foure score and tweyne, |Fynysshed per Caxton. 


Folio, full brown crushed levant morocco, blind tooled, gilt letter- 


ing, BY WALTERS. In full claret crushed French levant morocco 
solander case. 


First Epition of John of Trevisa’s English translation of Higden’s Poly- 
chronicon. 

COLLATION: Type 4; 303 leaves, 40 lines; 277 by 205 mm. 

ConpDlITION: Of the 450 original leaves this copy contains 301 genuine leaves 
and facsimiles of the first leaf of Prohemye and of the last leaf with colophon. 
The missing leaves, exclusive of the two facsimile leaves, comprise the first 
blank leaf, folios 3 to 77 (including 2 blank leaves), folios 4 and 5 of signature 
20; folio 5 of signature 23; folio 8 of signature 26; folio 2 of signature 28 bis 
(blank leaf); folio 1 of signature 29; folios 3 and 4 of signature 41; folio 7 
of signature 45, the last 58 leaves of text and the final blank leaf. 7 leaves 
have entire lower margin restored, a few other margins repaired, and a number 
of corners strengthened. 

REFERENCES: Blades, No. 46; Proctor, No. 9645; Hain, No. 8659; Cop- 
inger, Vol. I, p. 259; Ames-Dibdin, Vol. I, pp. 138-152; De Ricct, No. 49. 

Corres LocaTep: Of the recorded copies of the Polychronicon listed by 
De Ricci, only three are perfect, three have been made perfect by adding 
leaves from other copies, and two lack only some of the blank leaves. Of 
these eight copies; only one is in a private collection. 

The present is the Walter T. Wallace copy, formerly from the Henry W. Poor 
library, and containing many annotations in a Sixteenth Century hand. 

Higden, a monk of Chester, originally compiled the Polychronicon in Latin. 
It was translated into English by John of Trevisa. That part of the history 
which covers the years from 1387 to 1460 and forms the eighth and last book 
was compiled by Caxton himself and constitutes his Most IMPORTANT CON- 
TRIBUTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE. 


WILLIAM CAXTON 
WESTMINSTER, SEPTEMBER 2, 1483 


OWER (JOHN). Conressio AMANTIS. [2%.] This book is 
intituled confes- |sio amantis, that is to saye |in englysshe the con- 
fessyon of |the louer maad and compyled by |Iohan Gower squyer 
borne in Wayls. . . [221».] Enprynted at westmestre by me | 
willyam Caxton and fynysshed the ii |day of Septembre the fyrst 
yere of the |regne of Kyng Richard the thyrd, the |yere of our 
lord a thousand, CCCC, |Ixxxxiii |[error for 1483.] 

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(Muvely fardy He & Giah god) afoue 
PoE Wo! FT araunte fo & pour Loue 
Spw J fe pou fo préouflp complepne 
Boke Whe wp fro Enalondy to Britatrane 
Pe vemene ab the wckis (oon & foo 
Tha€ they ne Kotte Bap me Boot fo goo 
J fap Thay pe Bruce mare thre cofte fo clene 
OF wockis thé the 18 no toon J feen, 
Thay Wol 4 loue pou Kfé of onp may 
Iaue frre mp trout mn al EBa€ ever J cay 
Kor J Woot hat cé Hal neuer Képr 
Bet fue folpe out of pour Krée a (Cpr 
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AForto oo foue anoéGir mamnps Tyf- 
Ordo ber Bad, Bey fo at Spry Hire 
Muribus ful fore of te be fikieB 

ob® Eee nore other crace mt pou quod 
(No Bp txt Lordy Ca€ rare me 
Wo Ras Muraly Wha be Gre Geroe 
Md) With a fortbful bree & Cus anfihere 
Maramre quod he Chis Bere npoffibel 
Thay mufte J dpe nrforpy wh Soxnbee 
Mind) WieG Chae Word)-fe uernedy Syry canon 
Tho corny Bor offer fren nranp oy 
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Ord 110 Hing Wilepy of hrs conclufioy 
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Tub Che BrraHe forme loft bie Bebe 


CHAUCER CANTERBURY TALES 
Exact Facsimile of First Page 
[No. 1 


THe Witutiam C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 3. GOWER (JOHN). Confessio Amantis, 1483.—Continued.| 


Folio, original oak boards with pigskin back, marks of old clasps, 
leather thongs of the hinges unbroken. 


[See Illustration on opposite page] 


COLLATION: Type 4 and 4*; 217 leaves, 2 columns, 44 and 46 lines with 
headlines and foliation; 323 by 230 mm 

ConpiT1Ion: The largest copy known. Many of the edges of this book have 
never been trimmed. Lacks the blank folios 1, 8, 9 and 222, also folio 14 in 
Prologus, and has folios a, a‘, a>, a® (consisting of table of contents), p', p?, 
p’, p§, r‘, r®, B4, B®, C2, C3, C4 and C® supplied in facsimile. A number of other 
leaves repaired. The British Museum copy measures only 302 by 217 mm., the 
Morgan copy 302 by 214 mm., and the John Rylands copy 295 by 211 mm. 

REFERENCES: Blades, No. 53; Hain, No. 7385; Copinger, Vol. I, p. 234; 
Ames-Dibdin, Vol. I, pp. 177-185; De Ricci, No. 48; Duff, No. 59. 

Copies LocaTEpD: De Ricci has located 19 copies, none perfect, of which 
eight copies are in private hands. 

The present copy of this book is a delightful example despite its defects, for in 
addition to its wide margins it is in the original binding and presents an appear- 
ance charming to the eye of the antiquary. It affords a fine example of Caxton’s 
mastery of the art of printing and of the infancy of English bookbinding. 

Inserted are seven vellum leaves of an ancient manuscript that once formed 
a part of the inner cover, and six fragments still in place as tougheners for 
the hinges. These manuscript leaves have been pronounced by Dr. Joseph 
Martini to be portions of a manuscript written in England toward the end 
of the 13th Century, containing a Latin poem, apparently a Doctrinale similar 
to that composed by Alexander de Villa Dei in the early Thirteenth Century. 

John Gower, scholar, courtier and friend of Chaucer, belonged to the Gowers 
of Brabourne, Kent. We do not know when he was born, but he was mar- 
ried in 1397, and died in 1408. His biographers fix the date of his birth at 
1330. He is buried in the nave at St. Saviour’s, Southwark,—the church con- 
nected with the priory in which he lived for many years. The effigy shows 
the poet reclining, his head pillowed on the three folio volumes which were 
his contributions to literature,—Speculum Meditantis (written in French), 
Vox Clamantis (in Latin) and Confessio Amantis (in English). Chaucer and 
Gower were friends, each paying compliment to the other in his pages. When 
Chaucer went to Italy in 1378, he left Gower as one of his “attornies.” Their 
subsequent estrangement had its origin in Gower’s opposition to Richard II. 
and Chaucer’s loyalty to that king, to whose kindness Chaucer owed a lucra- 
tive employment. For two centuries Gower’s reputation in literature was 
held equal to that of Chaucer. 

Confessto Amantis was written by Gower at the command of the King, who, 
while entertaining the poet as his guest on his barge, enjoined him to write 
“some new thing.” This poem of 30,000 lines was accordingly completed in 
1390 and dedicated to the King. Subsequently that dedication was removed 
and one to Lancaster, the future Henry IV, substituted, a fact which throws 
light on Gower’s political foresight and on the forbearance of the King whose 
reign was even then heading toward revolution. 

The prologue is written in a spirit of intense pessimism born of Gower’s 
discontent with the tendencies of his day. The times are out of joint; the 
church is corrupt; professions and trades are dishonest; strife and discord 
reign in all classes of society. Through this gloomy portal the poet escapes 
into more ideal conditions by resorting to the Muse. He gives us no less than 
I12 stories in narrative poetry of octosyllabic metre, mostly from classical 
mythology, Scripture and medieval legend, although two ecclesiastical his- 
tories are included. 

The Confessio Amantis is entitled to these special distinctions: it was one of 
the first poems written in the English language, and it was the first English 
poem to be translated into other languages, notably into Spanish and Portu- 
guese. : 


Uturatus amoz nature Cogiby 
ork. SuBGdit ¢ Bnanimes co 
—atateffe feras / uius ent 
MuUuNDt prncps amoze effe Dixetur / 
Cuius eget dines pauper ef omnts o 4 
peo / Sunt mn agonc pates amor ¢& foz 
funagy waa/DleBis ad infidiacs Weht 
Derg votae/Eft amoz cara (alus Ko 
ata quics pius error /AGcim yay Due 
nus duller fuaue malurn 
OfeH 113 Mroblao fractatum 
Gatenus wiffit qualir Bodis 
erne COndIdoONIS OiUifio au 
— Cas Oilectionem fuyrrawuit/ An&ndi€ 
anchz ad prefens CikRum fur atine 
note Confeffio Wmanfic nunatpatir 
coponcre & illo amtoze a quo nox folis 
Gumanum genus (cd e anc& anima 
aa naturale (uBiauntur 
Map not fir che Bs 
fo p Geuene,Nipy §0d 
@ (ef al 19) cucne’/T Hire 
World Which 16 carer: 
in Balaticr/35t (tat not 
wy mip (uffpfauc / 
0 arete BHyndes fo compaffe 
OBnt Cf mote Cote tf over palfe 
And treéen Bron other tHynges — 
Sor thy He (tple of mp Brptpnaes 
Aw thio map forth Sf Henke chaunae 
Und fpcBe of Hyng is not fo ferige 
Whicbe cuerp Rpnde Gath Spon fonts 


WILLIAM CAXTON—PRINTER, WESTMINSTER, 1483 
GOWER—CONFESSIO AMANTIS 
Exact Facsimile of First Column of “Liber primus” 


[No. 3] 


THe WILLIAM C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 


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WILLIAM CAXTON 
WESTMINSTER, Circa 1483 


is? 0O0\ 0 0 4. CESSOLIS (JACOBUS DE). THE GAME AND PLAYE OF THE CHESSE. 
[A’.] The holy appostle and doctour of the peple saynt |Poule sayth 
in hisepystle. Alle that is yee lis wryten unto our doctryne and 
for our ler- |nyng . . . [84?.] . Thenne late euery man of what 
|condycion he be that redyth or herith this litel book reede. |take 
therby ensaumple to amende hym. |Explicit per Caxton. 
Small folio, full old calf, neatly and skilfully rebacked and re- 
paired at corners. In full brown crushed French levant morocco 
solander case, lettered on back, BY RIVIERE. 


[See Illustration on opposite page] 


Seconp EpiTion. The first edition was printed at Bruges about 1475. 

COLLATION: Type 2*; 83 leaves, 29 lines; 268 by 184 mm. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: 24 woodcuts in text, the first of which is that of the son 
of Nebuchadnezzar, named “enylmewdach,” described in the text as a “Jolye 
man without Justyse and so cruel that he did do hewe his faders body in thre 
hondred pieces and gaf hit to ete and deuoure to thre hondred byrdes that 
men calle voultres.” 

CONDITION: This copy is almost perfect, lacking only the blank leaf at 
beginning and having leaf H* in facsimile; some leaves with small worm-holes; 
few margins stained. 

REFERENCES: Blades, No. 34; Hain, No. 4901; Copinger, He oe 152- 
153; Ames-Dibdin, Vol. I, pp. 36-52; De Ricct, No. 18; Duff, N 

COPIES LocaTED: Of the 1 3 copies located by De Ricci, only 2 re etfs 
and only 6 are in private hands. 

This copy is from the Earl FitzWilliam collection, with his book-label, “Mil- 
ton. Petersborough.” 

Tall and crisp copy, probably the last copy in as perfect condition as the 
present which is likely to come into the American auction market. Blades 
classifies this edition as rarer than the First. 


WILLIAM CAXTON 
WESTMINSTER, JUNE 22, 1490 


i, 900 pees VIRGIL. Enrypos. [A] After dyuerse werkes made, translated 
and achieued, ha | uyng noo werke in hande. I sittyng in my 
studye where as |laye many dyuerse paunflettis and bookys. hap- 
pened that |to my hande cam a lytyl booke in frenshe. . . [853, 

| line 17:] Here fynyssheth the boke y' Eneydos, compyled by 

| Vyr |gyle, whiche hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, 

| And oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me Wyll'm 
Caxton, the xxij. daye of Iuyn. the yere of our lorde. M.iiij |Clxxxx. 
The fythe yere of the Regne of kynge Henry |the seuenth. [85°.] 
Caxton’s device. 


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WILLIAM CAXTON—PRINTER, WESTMINSTER, 1483 
CESSOLIS—THE GAME OF CHESSE 
Exact Facsimile of Verso of Signature 16 


[No. 4] 


THe WiuutiAMmM C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 5. VIRGIL. ENEyYDOS, 1490.—Continued.| 


| Small folio, late 18th Century English binding of red morocco, gilt 
| edges. In full claret crushed French levant morocco solander 
case. 

[See illustration on opposite page] 


COLLATION: Type 6; 84 leaves, 31 lines; 253 by 183 mm. 

ConpiTIon: Lacks the two blanks (folios 6 and 86). Folios 1 to 5 (con- 
taining the table of contents) and folio 85 in facsimile; lower margin of folio 6 

) skilfully restored the last line on recto of same inserted in exact pen-and-ink 
facsimile; a few stains. 

REFERENCES: Blades, No. 88; Proctor, No. 9679; Copinger, No. 6159; 
Ames-Dibdin, Vol. I, pp. 283-290; De Ricc1, No. 96; Duff, No. 77. 

CoprrEs LocaTED: De Ricci locates nineteen copies of which four are perfect, 
viz., two at Cambridge University and two in the Earl of Dysart's collection. 

From the Library of the Right Honorable George Rose (1782-1873), with his 
bookplate. 

On folio L3 is the signature, in a 16th Century hand, of John Bryges or 
Brydges (Probably that of Sir John Brydges, who died in 1556 and was the first 
Baron Chandos, who, as Lieutenant of the Tower of London, attended Lady 
) Jane Grey to the scaffold. He also repressed Wyatt’s rebellion.) Another signa- 
ture, on folio B1», is that of Nathaniel Hobson. 

Here we have that personal contact with Caxton which his biographers so 
greatly desire, for in his prologue he sets forth his opinions as to the English 
language of his day with a delightful frankness not to be found elsewhere: 

“And certaynly our langage now used varyeth ferre from that whiche 

) was used and spoken whan I was borne. For we englysshe men ben borne 
) under the domynacyon of the mone. Whiche is neuer stedfaste, but euer 
wauerynge, wexynge one season and waneth & dyscreaseth another season. 
And that comyn englysshe that is spoken in one shyre varyeth from a nother. 
In so moche that in my dayes happened that certayn marchautes were in a 
ship in tamyse for to haue sayled ouer the see into zelande, and for lacke of 
wynde thei taryed atte forlond, and wente to lande for to refreshe them And 
one of theym named sheffelde a mercer cam in to an hows and axed for mete 
and specyally he axyd after eggys And the goode wyf answerde. that she coude 
speke no frenshe. And the marchaut was angry. for he also coude speke no 
frenshe. but wolde haue hadde egges, and she understode hym not, And 
thenne at laste a nother sayd that he wolde haue eyren, then the good wyf 
sayd that she understod hym wel, Loo what sholde a man in thyse dayes now 
wryte. egges or eyren, certaynly it is harde to playse euery man, by cause 
of dyuersite & chauge of langage. . . And thus bytwene playn rude, & cu- 
ryous I stande abasshed. but in my Iudgemente, the comyn termes that be dayli 
used ben lyghter to be understonde than the olde and aueyent englysshe. . . .” 


WYNKEN DE WORDE 
Lonpon, May 1502 


/ 300\006. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND. St. ALBANS CHRONICLE. [Aa?.] 
HEre begynneth a shorte & a breue| table on these Cronycles 

. [169?. Colophon.] Here endeth this present Cronycle of | 

Englonde... . And newely in the yere of|oure lorde god. 

M.CCCCC.ii. Enpry | ted in Flete strete in ye sygne of the 

sofie | By me Wynkyn de Worde. [169. | Caxton device. [171.*] 

[ Continued 


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WILLIAM CAXTON—PRINTER, WESTMINSTER, 1490 
VIRGIL—ENEYDOS 
Exact Facsimile of First Page of Text, Recto of Signature Bi 
[ No. 5] 


Toe Witutiam C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 6. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND. ST. ALBANS CHRONICLE.—Coniinued.| 


Here foloWeth a lytell treatyse the Which treeateh of the descryp | 
cyon of this londe Whiche of olde tyme Was named. Albyon. 
And | after Brytayne . . . [191?.. Second Colophon.] Fynsshed 
& enprynted in Flete strete | in the syne of the sonne by me 
wynkyn de | worde, the yere of our lorde a.M.CCC | CC. and ii. 
mensis Mayus. [191°. | Caxton device. 

Small folio, original blind-tooled leather over oak boards with parts 
of the two old metal clasps, binding rebacked and much wormed; 
end-papers from the Machlina Edition of 1484, of which but one 
copy (the Althorp) is known. Enclosed in full claret crushed 
French levant morocco solander case. 


[See Illustration on opposite page] 


CoLLATION: Black Letter; 190 leaves, two-columns, 47 lines and headlines; 
282 by 197 mm. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Large woodcut view of London, three smaller woodcuts 
and eleven diagrams in the text: device of Caxton on two pages. 

ConpiT10on: Lacks the first blank leaf and the blank leaf 170; the final 
blank leaf is present but defective. One leaf torn in margin and a few worm- 
holes, but otherwise in good condition. With notes in an old hand on fly- 
leaves and on many margins. 

’ Copies LocaTEp: THis Book Is ExcESSIVELY RARE. We can trace but 
one perfect copy, that in the British Museum, and one imperfect copy which 
was sold at auction in London in 1897; otherwise the auction records are silent. 

The present copy is rich in association interest, for in addition to the names 
of several early owners the manuscript notes in same show that it was once the 
property of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729); later Norroy King-at-arms, the famous 
antiquary of Norfolk, who has written on the fly-leaf: 


“This book 1s called the 

book of St. Albans 

printed by Winken de 

Worde A D 1502 

and this 1s a very scarce book 
and given to me Peter Le Neve 
Norroy by my good friend 
Wiliam Fellowes Esq one 

of the masters in the chancery 
this present year 1710. 
Witness my hand 

Peter Le Neve. 
Norroy.” 


On the following leaf he has written: “J have another edition of this book printed 
by Wynkende de Wurd 1515 but impfect.” 

Le Neve was President of the Antiquarian Society of London for thirty-seven 
years. He wasalsoa fellow of the Royal Society. An antiquarian of abnormal 
zeal and an indefatigable collector, his calendars, diaries and notes form 
valuable contributions to the collections in the British Museum, the Bod- 
leian Library, the Herald’s College, and in the archaeological societies of 
Great Britain. His executor, “Honest Tom Martin” succeeded to the bulk of 
Le Neve’s collections and finally dispersed the library and manuscripts at the 
Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden, February, 1730. 

With bookplate of Right Honble. Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill, 1712. 

At the end of the year 1500, de Worde gave up the house of his former master, 
Caxton, at Westminster and removed to Fleet Street, where, at the Sign of the 

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Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 6. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND. ST. ALBANS CHRONICLE.—Continued | 


Sun, he occupied two houses close to St. Bride’s Church. The following year 
was spent in preparing the new printing office, and hence this edition of The 
Chronicles (May, 1502) was one of the first productions of his new press. The 
new type closely resembles Caxton’s founts, several letters being identical. 
The spirit of enterprise which made Wynkyn a rich and a prolific printer is here 
evidenced by his excellent method of registering the signatures of the quires of 
which the book is made up, and of calling the reader’s attention to it. “Ye 
must understande,” he says at the introduction to the Tabula, “that euery leef 
of the a bc is marked in the margyne undernethe i. and. ii. and. iii. and so forth 
to. vi. all the letters vnto the bokes ende.” Wynkyn’s enterprise is again mani- 
fested in his cut of London, the first engraved representation of the city. It is 
really a cut of the Tower, and a poor one at that, but it shows Wynkyn’s zeal 
in a new field. 


JOHANN MENTELIN 
StrAssBuRG, Nor Arrer 1466 


G450\007. THOMAS AQUINAS. SumMA, SECUNDA SECUNDAE PARTIs. [I?. 
Table.| [Q]uestio pma de vtutibus et vicij isspali . . . [6%. Table 
ends.] Explicit ordo et signacio questioniéi sedi libri scde | ftis beati 
thome de aquino bfdictus dee’. Amen. [7 blank. 8 Text begins.| 
[P]Ost smiiez consideracoez |de virtutibus . . . [245 col. I, Text 
ends.] est super omia deus benedictus in secula Amen. | 

Folio, original pigskin over heavy boards, with metal clasps, bosses, 
corner pieces and stands, all in fine condition, marks in top of back 
cover where chains were originally attached, rebacked with original 
back preserved, end-papers from an old vellum manuscript. 


| [See Illustration on opposite page] 


First EDITION. 

COLLATION: 246 leaves, of which 2 are blank, 2 columns, 59 lines; 388 by 280 
mm. Two to seven-line spaces for capitals. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Large initial letter at beginning of text painted in by hand 
in colors with elaborate marginal decoration, several other smaller capitals 
similarly painted; other capitals, page headings, foliation, paragraph marks and 
rubrics supplied in red or blue. 

CONDITION: Practically a perfect copy, lacking only one blank leaf. Folio 189 
(182 according to usual collation) was cancelled and cut away in all copies by 
the printer. The blank leaf at end of text and one of the blanks at end of table 
are present. 
The Table consisting of 6 leaves and 1 blank, which is usually bound at the 
) end, is placed at the beginning of this copy. 
) The rubricator has signed his name in two places (the last following table) 
which is cut to stub, a most unusual occurrence, asking the reader to pray for 
him: “7. H. S. M. Fraciscus. Orate pro illum—uinatoré amoe ih i.” (See bot- 
tom of last leaf of Tabula and top of last leaf of text.) This was undoubtedly 
Magister Franciscus, who was Gutenberg’s and Schoeffer’s corrector, rubricator 
and reader at Mainz, and who, after Mainz was sacked in 1462, accompanied his 
fellows to Strassburg, where this book was printed, probably in the following 
year. This autograph signature of one of that little group of pioneer printers is 
indeed a rarity. 

REFERENCES: Hain, No. 1454; Copinger, Vol. I, p. 38; Proctor, No. 199; 
Pellechet, No. 1045; Catalogue of Books Printed in the X Vth Century now in the 
British Museum, Part I, pp. 51-52. 

' OTHER Coptzs: The British Museum copy, has two missing leaves supplied from 
another copy, wants all the blanks and has the table at the end of the book.. 
Winship lists only one copy in America. [ Continued 


ueftio-clexxviy-de bps g opetiie religioh 

tz liceat ets docé pdicare et alia b? Facd, 

Vty liceat cis de negocys feclaribs fe intromie 
YVerum teneancur manibus yyrijs operari 


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uefcio-elxxxvn] de differencia religionis C ask - 
Ov fine dinerfe religides uel vna tanta §. 
¥ cy aliqua Higno infrieui poMie ad bella génda : 


Vex alig fligio infrieut poffic ad opa vite acti 
Verdi aliqua infrreuit pofhie ad predicandum ec 
buinfinods opera exercenda : 
Yerum alig religro police infetent ad feudin fei 
trum religio § odinaé ad oréplacind fie porior 
ea que oxdinatur ad vitam actiuam 
V-ep habé aligp i oitt vimiuat ve pFecese Higisi DC ppp iH ent >. 
Yerum religio folicariog fie pferenda religions | i 
in focietace vinencium 5 
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crm illi qui fie exercitati in obfernd $. 
¢ia preceprozum debeant religionem ingredi 


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Yerum uli qu voro obligancur ad reh gions CL xxx) iD: 
&. 


tngreffum ceneantur vorum implere 
Ven ili § vouée religide; incre tencant ibi ype: 


Vey prem fit reciprédi t religid; g tuo rmané . 
trum gpeer parentum obfcquid dqur ean iC Gar z 
recrabi a religionts ingreffiu gto os 
Verum prefpireri curaci ul arcdoidpaconi poffiie 3 
ad religionem tranfire 
V ty ve vna religione poffie aligs evafire ad alia J 
Ver aligs Xat alios mducé ad Fligidisingreff XEON &. 
Verrum requrratur magna deliberacio cit ofan. De 
wineis ct amicis ad religionis ingrcffum. 
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JOHANN MENTELIN—PRINTER, STRASSBURG, PRIOR TO 1466 
THOMAS AQUINAS—SUMMA 
Exact Facsimile of lower three-quarter column of end of table. Leaf 6. 
[No. 7] 


Toe WILLIAM C. VAN ANTWERP COunODo 
| 
| Monday Evening, May 1st 


THOMAS AQUINAS. Summa, Secunda.—Continued| 


The present copy came from the ancient Franciscan Convent of Duren, and 
bears its library mark. 

This is the first edition of this work, and the second book printed by Mentelin. 
Printed, possibly within ten years after the invention of the art of printing, it 
possesses peculiar interest to collectors of incunabula, especially because of the 
signature of its rubricator. 

The Catalogue of Early German Books in the Library of C. Fairfax Murray 
says: “His [Mentelin’s] Bzblza Latina was printed not after 1461, while the 
Thomas Aquinas was printed not after 1463.” This ascription is doubtless 
correct, for a manuscript note in the copy of the Suma, by Thomas Aquinas at 
Schelestadt in Alsace states that the book was bought from Mentelin himself in 
the year 1463. (See Pellechet, 1045.) The British Museum Catalogue, however, 
gives date as “Not after 1466.” 

Mentelin is said to have printed as early as 1458, but his earliest known book, 
the Biblia Latina, was probably printed in 1460 or 1461. Only four books from 
his press bear a printed date, viz.: Speculum Historiale, 1473; Speculum Morale, 
1476; Parswal, 1477; and Titurel, 1477. He died in 1478 and his business was 
continued by his son-in- law, Adolf Rusch, the celebrated “R-printer.” Another 
son-in-law, Martin Schott, was also a printer at Strassburg. 

This copy throws an interesting light on the methods employed by this 
pioneer printer, and the resources of his workshop. The pin-holes which occa- 
sionally appear in the sheets show how the paper was kept in position when 
applied to the type. Mentelin’s practice improved so rapidly that by 1466 he 
used but two pins, while in 1473 he abandoned them altogether. Again, as 
galley-proofs were unknown in his day, each page was set up by itself, showing 
that the compass of his press was no larger than an ordinary leaf of text; indeed 
it was not until 1470 that sufficient skill was attained to print two pages 
at a single “pull.” Now as the copy for each press was set up separately, the 
printer was ever confronted with the problem of making the end of each 
section of copy coincide with the end of a quire. This seldom happened, 
so recourse was had to various expedients such as increasing or diminishing 
the number of printed lines to a leaf, or the addition or subtraction of sheets in 
the penultimate quire. In this book, the second from his press, Mentelin 
found himself confronted with an entire blank leaf resulting from one of these 
quire contractions. He therefore cut the blank away and laconically explains 
it (folio 182) by printing a notice: “Hic nullus est defectus.” 


PETER SCHOEFFER 
Mainz, SEPTEMBER 7, 1470 


700\008. HIERONYMUS. ST. JEROME. Eptstor#. [1a (red).] Intro- - 


: 


ductorid in Epistolare . . . | [black] [O] Mnes christiane religionis 
homi- |nes . . . [407®. Colophon (red).] . Est aiit pns |opus 
arte impssoria ‘feliciter siimata p Petri ischoiffer de gernshem 1 
ciuitate nobili Mogi- |tina . . . Anno domini. Mcccc.lxx. Die 


septima mensis |septébris que ‘fuit vigilia natiuitatis Marie. | 

Da gloriam deo. |[Schoeffer’s device.] 

vols. in one, thick folio, original full blind tooled leather over 

heavy oak boards with metal bosses and clasps intact, many 

margins uncut; leather markers on edges of leaves; binding broken 

at joints with some scratches and worm-holes. The lining for the 
[ Continued 


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. Di quubp ntendas. dt wceus ecelehe. 


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x1.Ecclehe xprgpugnatons clariffmmd iter Je- 
rommanus aut hmaws gd etipe vim Liber 
eplaris exphiat-ut vig mtas nomis Jerommi- 
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Annotomim.Q).ccce-Ixx- Die fepama menfis 

feptebris que hnewigilta natintane A\arie. 
Da gloriam xo, 


PETER SCHOEFFER—PRINTER, MAIN Z, 1470 
ST. JEROME—EPISTOLE 
Exact Facsimile of entire column containing colophon 


[No. 8] 


THe WILLIAM C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 
Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 8. HigzRONYMUS. ST. JEROME. Epistolae.—Continued|] 


back cover is a vellum leaf of printed text corresponding to the 
verso of leaf 320 with very slight typographical differences. The 
binding shows early repairs with leather of contemporary period 
and later lettering. 


[See Illustration on preceding page] 


COLLATION: Type 5; 408 leaves (Vol. I, 198 leaves; Vol. II, 210 leaves) 
2 columns, 56 lines; 476 by 333 mm. Printed in black with red rubrics. Two- 
to eight-line spaces left for capitals. Four pin-holes. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Capital and paragraph marks are supplied by hand in red 
and blue, larger initial letters with scroll fillings in purple ink extended into 
arabesques in many margins. 

CONDITION: COMPLETE Copy WITH THREE ORIGINAL BLANK FLy- LEAVES, 
CLEAN AND IN SPLENDID CONDITION outside of a few worm-holes. 

REFERENCES: Hain, No. 8554; Proctor, No. 92; Catalogue of Books Printed 
in the X Vth Century now in the British Museum, Part I, pp. 26-27. 

Corres LocATED: Two copies in the British Museum, one a perfect copy 
which formerly belonged to King George III, and the other an imperfect copy on 
vellum. Winship lasts two vellum copies in the United States, but does not say 
whether they are perfect or not; he also lists one copy of Vol. 2 on paper. The 
present copy contains an inscription of the Library of the Monastery of St. 
Matthew the Apostle, at Mainz, and a later note of E[dward] C[raven] Hawtrey 
(1789-1862) who states that he bought the volume from Lepard for £6. Dr. 
Hawtrey was head-master and afterward provost at Eton College. “As a book- 
collector he showed consummate taste. He is said to have spent £40,000 on his 
library.”—Dictionary of National Biography. 

This appears to be an earlier issue than the British Museum copy, which 
belonged to King George III. In that copy the last few lines on leaf 2278, 
originally blank, have been filled in by a later marginal impression; in the present 
copy they remain blank. This is also a much larger copy, the leaves being 15 
mm. taller and 26 mm. wider than in the King George copy. 

The vellum leaf used as back lining paper in the present volume is evidently 
of the same issue as the second copy in the British Museum which is also printed 
on vellum and which differs slightly from the edition on paper, showing that the 
work was reprinted, although the colophon date is the same for both issues. 

Early in the year 1470 Schoeffer issued an advertisement announcing the 
publication of this book by Michaelmas; a copy of this notice is in the British 
Museum. It was published by Schoeffer to forestall the St. Jerome of his rival 
Mentelin. 

The name of Schoeffer, who printed this beautiful volume, is forever linked 
with that of Gutenberg and Fust as inventors of the art of printing in that 
famous shrine of bibliophiles—the Shuster Gasse, on the Place of the Franciscans 
at Mainz. Schoeffer puts the matter very modestly and very clearly in the 
dedication to Emperor Maximilian in his Livy of 1505: 

“May your Majesty deign to accept this book, which was printed at 
Mayence, the town in which the admirable art of typography was invented, 
in the year 1450, by John Gutenberg, and afterward brought to perfection 
at the expense, and by the labor of John Fust and Peter Schoeffer.” 

It was Schoeffer who presented a copy of his St. Jerome to the Church of 
St. Victor at Paris to secure an annual mass for his deceased partner, Fust; he 
also founded another anniversary mass for both Fust and his wife, Margaret, 
at the Church of the Dominicans at Mainz, which latter mass was also paid 
for with a copy of the book here described. 


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HENRY EGGESTEIN—PRINTER, STRASSBURG, 1471 


GRATIANUS—DECRETUM 


Exact Facsimile of full text above red colophon, last page 


[No. 9] 


THE 


WILLIAM. C. Van ANTWERP COLD BCT LOn 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


700\009. G 


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HENRY EGGESTEIN 
STRASSBURG, 1471 
RATIANUS. DeEcrRETuUM. [I?. Commentary.] [Q] Vonia nouis 


supuenientil causis nouis est remedijs succurré-| di. Idcirco 
ego bartholomeus brixiensis afidens de magnifice- | cia creator- 


is apparatii decretoru duxiin melius reformadai . . . [Text (inred).| 
In nomine sancte et indiuidue |trinitatis. Incipit concordia . . . 
[459», column 1. Colophon (in red).] . . . Per venerabilem viri 


Heinricu Eggesteyn. artiii libe- |ralii magistrum ciuem inclite 
ciuitatis Argentin. Anno diii. |M°.cccc®.1xxj°. 

hick folio, original oak boards rebacked with morocco and with 
the original blind stamped leather sides preserved within a new 
morocco border, with the arms of the Right Honorable Thomas 
Grenville in gilt in center of sides, newly stamped; the original 
stitching intact and many leaves uncut. 


[See Illustration on preceding and following pages] 


First EDITION. 

COLLATION: 459 leaves, 2 columns, 81 lines of commentary surrounding the 
text; 475 by 335 mm. One- to nine-line spaces in the text and two- and three- 
line spaces in the commentary left for capitals. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: With miniature of a knight in armor painted in colors and 
burnished gold at beginning of text; Initial letter in burnished gold and colors 
enclosing a crest, and border in gold and colors surrounding the first column of 
text. Hand-painted initial letters at beginning of each section; smaller capitals, 
paragraph marks and page headings supplied in red or blue, rubrics written in 
by hand in red. 

CONDITION: COMPLETE, AND IN FINE CONDITION THROUGHOUT. ; 

REFERENCES: Hain, No. 7883; Catalogue of Books Printed in the X Vth 
Century now tn the British Museum, Part I, pp. 67-68. 

Copies LocaTEpD: British Museum (King George III’s copy); 3 copies in 
America, all in public libraries. 

This copy after reposing for three centuries in the Monastery of St. Em- 
meramt at Breslau, came into the possession of the Right Honorable Thomas 
Grenville whose arms are stamped on the covers. 

BEAUTIFUL Copy OF THE FirsT EDITION AND THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT 
STRASSBURG WITH A DATE. IT Is A MATCHLESS SURVIVAL OF THE PRINTER’S 
ART OF FouR AND ONE-HALF CENTURIES AGO. 

Heinrich Eggestein, the printer of this book, appears to have begun his work 
at Strassburg as early as 1466. At any rate a copy of his 45-line Bible with the 
date May 24, 1466, in a contemporary memorandun,, is in the Royal Library at 
Munich. This copy of the Gratianus is the first book which he printed bearing 
a date. His Clemens V. was also published in the same year. From the colo- 
phon it appears that the Gratsanus was printed with the apparatus of Johannes 
Semeca and that it was edited by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis. Eggestein pub- 
lished a second edition in 1472. 


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HENRY EGGESTEIN—PRINTER, STRASSBURG, 1471 


GRATIANUS 


DECRETUM 


Reduced Facsimile of First Page 


[No. 9] 


ARBRE 


THe Wititi1aAm C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 
| Monday Evening, May 1st 
ANTONIUS BARTOLOMEI [MISCOMIN]] 
) VENICE, JANUARY 22, 1476 


GS 0|\ oro. HIERONYMUS—ST. JEROME. Epistora. [A?®] [QJ]Ihi 


Quidem Fidelissime Papa Laurenti ad scribendii| animus n6 est tam 


cupidus . . . [Folio 150°.] Finis Prime Partiseelise soe 
Registrum. 154 blank, 155%, Part II begins:| [D]Rius te Cypriae 
psbyteroruz studiosissime . . . [359°. Colophon.] Elegantissi- 


mas Diui Hieronymi Epistolas; Antonius | Bartolomei Venetiis 
Feliciter Impssit. M.cccc.Ixx.| vi. Die xxii Mensis Ianuarii. 
[.Finis. | [360-361 blank, 362-364? Registrum.| 

Folio, early 16th Century binding of plain boards, worm-eaten, 
leather back, gilt lettered, remains of clasps, backs slightly 
cracked at joints, cover chipped at edge. 


[See Illustration on opposite page] 


COLLATION: Small gothic type; 364 leaves, 2 columns, 68 lines; 388 by 280 
mm. Four- to twenty-line spaces left for capitals. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Large initial letter at the beginning of each part beautifully 
illuminated in burnished gold and colors, extended into marginal foliate border, 
and with lower border in similar design containing the crest of Dr. Hartmann 
Schedel, author of the Niiremburg Chronicle, to whom the volume originally 
belonged. Other capitals supplied in red or blue, paragraph marks and initial 
strokes in red. 

CONDITION: Complete text, and three of the four blank leaves; lacking 
only the blank at the beginning. Very fine copy throughout, aside from a few 
worm-holes in margins. The quire containing final “Regiostum” slightly 
shorter, and loose. 

REFERENCES: Hain, No. 8556; Panzer Annal. Typogr., Vol. III, p. 120; 
Seemuler Incunabula, p. 89. 

Corres LOCATED: One complete copy listed as in America, and a copy of 
Part II only, in the Library of Congress. There is no copy in the British Museum. 

This copy bears the earliest known example of a book-label, that of Dr. 
Hartmann Schedel of Niiremberg, author of that great picture-book of the 
Middle Ages, the WWuremberg Chronicle. The book-plate, in red and green 
letters, is the handiwork of Dr. Schedel himself, who has painted the date, 1510, 
on the blank leaf before the tabula, and on the inner back cover. The latter 
inscription states that the book was given to him in sheets in June, 1510, by 
the widow of Johan Eysenhut, the famous Viennese printer, for services rendered 
her by making a list of her husband’s books. Schedel states that he then had 
the book bound and rubricated at his own expense. On the first leaf of each 
part is an illumination with scroll border containing Schedel’s crest, the head 
of a negro. The leaves are numbered in Schedel’s handwriting and many 
of the pages contain annotations written by him. 

All Dr. Schedel’s books, including this one, passed, after his death in 1514, to 
the Munich Library. There the book remained, as the inscription by F. A“felius, 
the librarian, on the inner front cover states, until 1762, when it was sold. 
The famous Mazarine Bible was sold by the library authorities at the same 
time. The library stamp is found between the columns on the first and last 
leaves. 


te terras tangés pmanebat integru nec corruptione alt 
qua niolatu.2d inde elendtes cu odore ta uebemétii 
mo et fuaut qd talé olfactus bominu nig fenfit collo 
catiimus in alturl quatenus a populo reliquizx fancufit 
mz widerétur. Quot at illo die me cuctifgs qui aderat 
aftantions funt pacta miracula gloriofa explicandi ea 
nullatéue copos efles Exc fedeci illas reliquiaf tangé 
tes facie nifus protinus receperut.. Tres papue dxmo 
niai catbenis uicti ila ecclefias plurtmoxz boius mant 
bus deportatt funt protius liberan. <@ulierts cuiufda 
nidux paupculx pucrulus eius ticus filius in ecclefla 
fait pgétius multitudine fuffocatus ‘qué m2 inueniens 
dolens et lugés mor in ulnis puerili cadauer ad fouea 
in qua fepulm fuerat corpus Dicronymi glonoft defe 
rens ett i fouea protecit bxc uerba dicés Bacte ‘Hiero 
ny me ‘gloriofe bine nd receda donec reftituas mibi tf 
cus meu filit qué amufi.<durabilif certe deus i fanctis 
fuis facég prodigia ifueta ftati ut terra extinctl pueru 
{i corpus tetigit eidé aia eft cOilicta Quid’ air corpus 
cirtufds fist fill de fepultura i qua p tridut fteterat ex 
tractu mog ad fovea lla detulit et tlludin foued fic pro 
tect quiduyenis fut tlico uitx priftix reftiutus. Pnnu 
Reabilsa pene forét miracula q pacta {ut a mane ufqs 
ad nefpas quo che tpi gloriofu. bieronymi cadauer 
de fouea difepulru ialttart extittt collocat. Ss tamen 
ad bujufmoi miracula ulterius nd proceda. Onum qd 
nocte fequeti acciditnd filebo - 

WN bora fiquidé uefptina corpus illd 
facratifimu i monumeéto gd pparaut 
mus pofluimuffs mane monumétu 
uacuu eftiuétum et corpus fancniii 
mu fouex priftix iuéimus reftitums 
Nd diego plurima admirarer nocte fequétt mibi dor 
miéti beatus bierenymus apparés i ulfione pluria mi 
bi gradia patefecit G3 iter cxtera talia mibi uerba digit 
Roueris Lyrilte qd corpus met de foues i qua tacet 
nullatenus extrabetur quoufgs ciuttas bierufalé ab iff 
delibs capietur: Luo quidé tpre roma delatum thides 
multo tpre requiefcet: ad bxc expgefactus q'uideram 
cucts epifcopis et aliis uirts catbolicis enarrant.Qquid 
etqh bxc enemétzaliternd agnofco Bi quid utile aut 
bont ibac epiftola dicind meis & gloriofifimt bierdy 
mu meritis iputetur. Bi quid uero fupfluu iutile et nd 

bont fol: mex ifipiérix et negligétix ca boc accidiffe: 

ab oibs tudicetur <QOet Auguttne cariffime in tuts ora 

tonibus memor efto. 


egantifimas Oiul Hieronymi Eptftolas: Antonius 
patiels lomet Oenetits Feliciter Fnpilit. aD. ccc. lex. 


Pie xxii menfis Januari. 
SUT Be 


ANTONIUS BARTOLOMEI—PRINTER, VENICE, 1476 
HIERONYMUS—EPISTOL# 
Exact Facsimile of colophon and three-quarter lower part of last column 
[No. 10] 


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Toe WILLIAM C. VAN ANTWERP COLE ECTION 


/ 
| Monday Evening, May 1st 


| NICHOLAS JENSON 


VENICE, 1476 


/oooo01. BIBLIASACRA LATINA. [a2.] Incipit epla sacti Hieronymi ad 
Paulina |pbrz. de oib diuine historie libris . . . [a5.] Incipit liber 
genesis q dicitur hebrai |ce bresith . . . [Q”, verso. Colophon.| 
Biblia impressa Uenetijs ope |ra atqz impensa Nicolai len |son 
Gallici. M.ccce.lxxvj. [R!.] Incipiunt interpretationes he |brai- 
cori. . . [X’, recto.] Expliciunt interpretatio|nes hebraicori 
nominfi. |Laus deo. 

Small folio, full old blue straight-grain morocco, blind tooled, with crest 
and motto of the Stuarts of Mount Stuart, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, 
stamped in gilt on front cover; gilt gaufred edges with medallion 
containing the cross and initials Y.W.S. on fore-edge, BY HERING. 
In full seal-brown crushed morocco solander case. 


CoLLATION: Printed on vellum in small gothic type; 467 leaves, 2 columns, 
52 lines and headlines; 289 by 203 mm. Two- to fourteen-line spaces left for 
capitals. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Miniature of St. Jerome, with elaborate floral border, on 
first leaf, and a second miniature of a scene in the Garden of Eden, with border 
in jewel and floral designs on leaf a5, all beautifully illuminated in gold and colors; 
several initial letters in burnished gold and colors, extending into marginal decor- 
ation; their capitals supplied alternately in red and blue, with pen-work in col- 
ored inks extended into margins. 

ConpDITION: The first leaf has been trimmed close to edge of printing of inner 
column and around the miniature, the outer column of same supplied on a 
separate piece of vellum in beautiful pen-and-ink facsimile, a part of heading 
and about half of upper border also supplied, the miniature on inner column 
also inserted with the text on its reverse in manuscript, the different pieces very 
skilfully and almost invisibly pieced together. Leaf a* containing the other 
miniature has been similarly treated, the top and bottom of the jeweled border 
and the three sections of the floral border, the entire heading and text in outer 
column all being supplied, the miniature also inserted and the text on its reverse 
in manuscript. Leaves a3, a‘, a® and a’ were cut into, when the original minia- 
tures from the other leaves were cut out, and these cuts are repaired on verso 
of each leaf, with a few letters supplied in facsimile. The manuscript portions 
supplied are beautifully written, and the joining of the same to the original 
leaf appears to be work of a contemporary hand. 

The blank leaf [a1] is lacking at the beginning; leaf H!°, originally blank, is 
cut to stub. The final leaf containing the Register is lacking; this leaf, however, 
is never found in the vellum copies. Three leaves stained in margins. 

REFERENCES: Hain, No. 3061; Pellechet, No. 2290; Proctor, No. 6696; 
Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, No. 28; Humphreys, p. 113. 

Corres LocATED: One of seven known copies on vellum of which but two are 
in private hands. 

The Hoe-Hanrott copy, formerly in the collection of the Stuarts of Mount 
Stuart, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, whose crest and motto “Nobilis Ira” is stamped 
in gold on the cover. Sold at the William Stuart sale at Christie’s, March 6, 


5. 

Although Jenson printed at Venice, France properly claims him, for he was 
born at Sommevoire, near Bar-sur-Arbe. According to a manuscript in the 
library of the Arsenal at Paris, in October, 1458, Charles VIII. of France, having 
been informed of Gutenberg’s invention of the art of printing, selected Jenson 
as his emissary to Mayence with instructions to acquaint himself with the new 


[ Continued 


Under the Management of the American Art Association 


Kindly read the Conditions of Sale Printed in forepart of this catalogue 


No. 11. Breita Sacra LATINA, 1476.—Continued] 


eat 
art. Jenson, himself an engraver of the Royal Mint at Tours, of which he was 
Master, returned to Paris in 1461 with a complete mastery of the subject, but 
he found his patron the King, dead, and Louis XI. on the throne. As the new 
King offered him no encouragement, Jenson determined to carry his new- 
found knowledge elsewhere; he therefore settled at Venice which, with Paris 

) and Rome, then shared the literary primacy of Europe. There he began to 

print in 1470, and continued until his death in 1481. 

| Jenson’s workmanship was characterized from the outset by such great and 

) important advances in the new art that his contemporaries, among them 

Cornazzano and Leonicenus of Ferrara, praised him as “the first of printers.” 
So great was his repute that Pope Sixtus IV. conferred upon him the honorary 
title of Count Palatine. “His founts of type,” says Humphreys (History of the 
Art of Printing, p. 113), “were of exquisite regularity and beauty, carrying the 
angular letter to the highest perfection of which it is capable.” The same 
authority, in describing the very Bible here presented, says, “it is printed on the 
finest vellum, and with ink of the greatest brilliancy, while the extreme regularity 
both of the setting-up and the impression, is truly marvelous.” E. Gordon Duff 
(Books Printed on Vellum, p. viii.), says,—“Nicholas Jenson. . . printed 
editions of the Latin and Italian classics which have never been approached for 

| ‘beauty of typography, and copies printed on vellum have always been eagerly 

sought after.” The British Museum’s Guide to the King’s Library (p. 28), 

says that Jenson’s workmanship “has never been surpassed.” Even though 

) we include the master craftsmanship of William Morris the fact remains that 

| printing, alone among the arts, was more beautiful in those far-off primitive 

) 15th Century days than it has ever been since that time. And towering above 
all his rivals at Mainz, Strassburg, Venice, Paris and Rome, stands the figure 

| of Nicholas Jenson. 

As this book is one of the finest known specimens of the printer’s art, so also 
its illuminator and rubricator are alike entitled to their share of praise. The 
miniatures, in gold and colors, are of surpassing beauty; the capitals, of which 
there are several hundred, are so unusual as to merit critical examination under 

a magnifying glass. 


| ANTOINE VERARD 
Paris, DECEMBER 7, 1492 


}g00.0012. JOSEPHUS. De La BatTAILLE JUDAIQUE. (1*. Title.] Iosephus 


| de la bataille|[udaique. Imprime nouuellemét a Paris. aaa 
| [O]Vnom de Dieu tout pussat|a la louege de sa tresglorieu | 
se mere. . . (225°, col. 2, Colophon.] Cy finist lhystoire De 
) losephus |de la bataille Iudaique traslatee Ide latin en francoys en 
lhonneur |de dieu et de la vierge marie & De |toute la court celle- 
stielle. Et fut Jacomplie leseptiesme iour de de- |cembre mil OUOLES 
quatre vigz jet douze: & imprimee aparis pour | Anthoyne verad 
libraire demeu- |rant sur le pont nostredame . . . [Verard's de- 

vice below.| 
Folio, 16th Century full red morocco, triple gilt filet borders on 
sides and around back strip, with the arms of Charles, Cardinal 
de Bourbon and his small oval stamp of a lily in bloom with the 


[Continued 


THe Wituiam C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 12. JosepHus. La Bataille Judaique.—Continued| 


legend “Superat candore et odore,” in gilt on back, gilt edges, 
small repair in lower front joint. 


[See Illustration on opposite page] 


COLLATION: Printed on vellum, gothic type; 256 leaves (last blank), 2 col- 
ume lines and foliation; 405 by 275 mm. Two- to four-line spaces left for 
capitals. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Three three-quarter page woodcuts within ornamental 
borders, two other large cuts within borders, 130 smaller cuts and a number 
of lateral borders, all of the woodcuts and all but two of the borders being 
beautifully illuminated by hand in gold and colors; small capitals and para- 
graph marks supplied by hand in brown and gold; printer’s device colored by 

and. 

ConpITION: Has the final blank leaf, but lacks the last leaf of the Table 
with a woodcut on verso; lacks also folios 105, 106, 120, 134, 182, 183 and 216. 

REFERENCES: Hain-Copinger, No. 9459; Proctor, No. 8423. 

Copies LocaTED: But one other copy on vellum is known, that in the Bzb- 
liothéque Nationale, which is described by Brunet. 

This book has a long and interesting provenance. It was done originally 
for Thomas Bohier, Treasurer General of Brittany and Secretary of the Finances 
to Charles VIII. to whom the book is dedicated. Bohier’s arms, d’or, au lion 
d’azur, au chef de gules, are emblazoned on many of the pages and in the borders; 
his arms also appear drawn in trick on the title-page with this inscription: 
“Ce livre. est. et appartient. a. Thomas. Bohier. Tresorier. General de Bretaigne. 
et. Secretaire. des. Finances. du. Roy.” . Interesting notes on the Bohier family 
by S. C. Cockerell and others, are laid inside the cover. 

After Bohier’s death the book passed to Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon 
(1562-1594), Archbishop of Rouen, brother of Henry, Prince of Condé and 
cousin of Henry of Navarre. The binding, in sumptuous 16th Century red 
morocco, bears in centre of back-bone his arms, and below same, his small oval 
stamp with a lily in bloom and the legend, “Superat candore et odore.” 

Where the book next found a home may be seen from its appearance 
in Sotheby’s auction rooms, November 6, 1899, in the Sir F. A. T 
Constable sale,—to the catalogue of which is prefixed a note reading, “This 
library was a very old one, having been formed originally by the first Lord 
Aston, Ambassador to Spain in the reign of James I.” The Constables came into 
possession of the volume through the marriage of Thomas Clifford and Barbara 
Aston, daughter of the fifth Lord Aston. Their son, Thomas Hugh Clifford 
(1762-1823), created a baronet in 1815, succeeded to the estates of Francis Con- 
stable, of Burton Constable, and by royal permission he assumed the name of 
Constable only. The book-plate of the next owner, William Constable, F. R ~., 
is inside the back cover. At the Constable sale the book was purchased by 
Henry Yates Thompson whose book-plate is inside the front cover, and at his 
sale it passed to its present owner. We have therefore an almost unbroken 
known line of ownership covering more than four centuries. 

The earliest dated book bearing Antoine Vérard’s name is the Edition of 
Boccaccio’s Decameron, finished November 22, 1485. Between this date and 
his death in 1512 he published in French about 150 works of the same popular 
character as those printed in England by Caxton. An important feature of 
his work in which he far excelled all other printers of his day, was the prep- 
aration of especially printed copies on vellum for such royal patrons as Charles 
VIII. of France, Henry VII. of England and the Comte d’Angouléme. Con- 
sult “Antoine Vérard” by John Macfarlane; Bibliographical Society's Illus- 
trated Monographs, Vol. VIII. Some of the woodcuts made for the Josephus 
(Macfarlane’s Nos. XVII and XVIII.) were used by Vérard the following year 
in his L’Arbre des Batailles. 


[ Continued 


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JOSEPHUS—BATAILLE JUDAIQUE 
Reduced Facsimile of First Page of Text 
[No. 12] 


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THe WitutiaAam C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 12. JosEpHUS La Bataille Judaique—Continued| 


SYS 00013. 


The vellum in this volume displays to the fullest advantage the lustre of the ink, 
the sharpness of the engravings, and the ornamentation of the illuminator and 
rubricator, and explains why books printed on lamb-skin have always been 
prized possessions of the book collector. Aside from other considerations, the 
task of obtaining more than 250 large leaves (as in this volume) of skins present- 
ing the same color on both sides, with no evidences of hair roots or other blem- 
ishes, of uniform thickness and whiteness, all cured to withstand the ravages 
of time, constitutes a triumph of-skill. One need but compare the vellum of this 
volume with that of contemporary works from the German, English and 
Netherlands presses to recognize its great superiority. Vérard, the printer of 
the Josephus here described, easily surpassed all competitors in all countries in 
this especial field of printing on vellum. His royal patrons were lavish in their 
recognition of his art. The examples of his work in the unrivalled collections of 
the Bibliothéque Nationale and in the British Museum are charming relics in which 
the arms and badges of the original owners, the colorful charm of the illumina- 
tions, the fineness of the vellum and the beauty of the typography form a rare 
combination. 

In the illustrations the artist has been especially successful in his treat- 
ment of the faces, for example b?, where the author, on bended knee, is shown 
presenting his book to King Charles VIII. to whom the volume is dedicated; 
i3 reverse, which is the title-page to Book II; E® reverse, the title to Book VII, 
in which Sabinus and Titus are shown in armor, within a delicately floreated 
border in gold, blue and green, with daisies and bluebells in natural colors. 
The gold armor of the knights engaged in the various battles on land and sea 
is especially brilliant. The frontispiece is a fine cut showing the triumphal 
entry of a French King into a city, accompanied by knights in armor. This 
design also appears in the Gestes Romaines and in Lancelot, but was evidently 
designed for this book, for the banner or scroll in the center bears the word 
Josephus, while in the others it is left blank. 


ANTON KOBERGER 
NUREMBERG, JULY 12, 1493 


[SCHEDEL (HARTMANN).] NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. I*. Title.| 


REgistrum |huius ope- |ris libri cro- |nicarum |ci figuris et ymagi- | 
bus ab inicio midi: [326. Colophon.| ADest nunc studiose 
lector finis libri Cronicarum ... Ad in |tuiti autem & preces 
prouidorii ciuiii Sebaldi Schreyer |& Sebastiani kamermaister hunc 
librum dominus Antho |nius koberger Nuremberge impressit . . . 
Consummatu autem duodeci- |ma mensis Iulij. Anno salutis nre. 
1493 


Folio, full original stamped calf over oak boards, with brass clasps 


intact, rebacked, corners and parts of edges of sides repaired. 


First EDITION. 

COLLATION: Gothic type; 326 leaves, table and parts of text in 2 columns, 
64 to 67 lines and headlines; 453 by 302 mm. Folios 21 to 286 numbered 
1 to CCLXVI, and folios 293 to 325 numbered CCLXVII to CCXCIX. Folios 
279 to 281 (numbered CCLVIIII to CCLXI) are blank except for headlines; 
folio 292 blank. Spaces for capitals in Table, beginning of text and on two 
other pages, other capitals printed. — 

ILLUSTRATIONS: 1809 woodcuts, of which 1164 are repetitions, by Wohlge- 
muth and Pleydenwurff. Double-page map at end. Hand painted large initial 


[Continued 


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LHOGUULA AO ASHOOIC AHL HOA MOO AOIAYAS ANV YALITVSd 


OSSl “LATA “UALINIYd—TUNdAH SOITANWOO 


THe Wi.tutIiAM C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 13. SCHEDEL (HARTMANN). Nuremberg Chronicle.—Continued] 


letter at beginning of text in red and blue, other hand painted capitals in red. 

CONDITION: IN PRACTICALLY PERFECT CONDITION, WITH THE “SARMACIA” 
AND ALL THE BLANK LEAVEs and without a single mutilation. Even the 
figure of the “Papess Joan” has not the usual defacement. Clean, crisp and 
fresh as when it was issued. The additional text, “De Sarmacia,” consisting 
of five printed leaves and one blank, is bound between Folios CCLXVI and 
CCLXVII, instead of at end of the volume as is usually the case. There 
are two original blank fly-leaves at end of text, they, however, do not appear 
to be a part of the final signature, and are not included in the collation. 

REFERENCES: Hain, No. 14508; Catalogue of Books Printed in the 15th 
Century now in the British Museum, Part II, p. 437. 

With presentation inscription of Arnoldi van Rinnick, and date which 
appears to be 1543, and “Carmelitarum Discalceatorum (?) Conuentus Montensis,” 
written twice on title. 

The William K. Bixby copy, with his autograph signature on fly-leaf. 

The Nuremberg Chronicle, compiled by Hartmann Schedel, was the great 
picture-book of the Middle Ages, and in consequence of this, very few copies 
survive in good condition. The woodcuts were often colored by inexperienced 
hands, thus defacing the leaves, or cut out to be used as dolls by the children. 
The woodcut of “Papess Joan” was purposely defaced or mutilated in almost 
all copies, owing to the offence which it gave to the Church. A FINE, Com- 
PLETE Copy SucH As THE PRESENT, IS RARELY MET WITH. 


CORNELIUS HENRICI 
DELFT, JANUARY 29, 1530 


75 O O14. PSALTER. PSALTER AND SERVICE BOOK FOR THE DIOCESE OF 
Urrecut, [Title]. PSalterii horas canoni- | cas catare in ecclesiis 
| volentib, secundi laudabi- | lem cdsuetudine Ecclesie | traiecten- 
sis perutile . . . [180a Colophon.| . . . Completum est in oppido 
Delphensi, per|me Cornelium henrici Calcotipum. Anno | 
domini millesimo quingentesimo trice- | simo, die vicesimo nono 
lannarig ss; 

Small folio, original full stamped leather over oak boards, with 
metal clasps (one fastener lacking), bosses, stands and corners, 
untrimmed edges with some leather button-markers intact. 


[See Illustration of Binding on preceding page] 


COLLATION: Printed on vellum; 180 leaves, 2 columns, 28 lines with 
headlines; 281 by 194 mm. Printed in red and black. Woodcut border on 
title. 

CONDITION: Complete copy with the blank leaf 122, and 2 original blank 
vellum fly-leaves at beginning and end. With contemporary manuscript an- 
notations on fly-leaves, title, verso of title and verso of last leaf, and on some 
margins. Title torn at inner border. 

The vellum in this copy is so coarse, uneven and poor in color as to justify the 
opinion that it is sheepskin, but the binding, which is a work of art, has sur- 
vived all its utilitarian vicissitudes and is as strong and as serviceable as ever. 

Copies LocaTED: This vellum copy is unique. There is no copy in the 
British Museum nor the Bioblithéque Nationale; nor is it known to any biblio- 
graphical authority. This present copy has been examined by E. Gordon Duff, 

[ Continued 


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BIBLE. COVERDALE’S TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH 
Reduced facsimile of title-page 
[No. 15] 


Tue Wittiam C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 
eS ee eee 
| Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 14. PSALTER. Service Book for Utrecht.—Continued] 


who pronounces it “magnificent and unique.” (Books printed on Vellum, p. xiv.) 
There was a copy on paper in the Enchede sale, and another, also on paper, is 
in the Comte de Villa Franca collection. 

Ries the Library of Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., Armitage Bridge, with book- 
plate. 

Despite the great size of the Diocese of Utrecht, which was founded by St. 
Willibrod in 722, and covered all the northern Netherlands between the Scheldt 
and the Ems, its service books are excessively rare. 

The printer of this book, Cornelius Heynrieszoon, letter-snyder, also printed 
a Dutch New Testament at Delft in 1534. These are the only books from his 
press. He was very probably the son of Henrik van Rotterdamme, letter- 
snyder, who printed at Antwerp towards the close of the Fifteenth century. 
The addition of the term letter-snyder (type-cutter) to both their names adds 
additional likelihood to their being connected. Two other Stationers joined 
in the expenses of printing this Service Book, Bartholomeus Jacobszoon of Leyden 
and Jan Severszoon Cruepel of Amsterdam. The first, who lived “above the new 
Rhine,” is not mentioned by Panzer. He is only found in Leyden in 1530, 
and from 1537 to 1546 was in Amsterdam. The second, Jan Severszoon of 
Gruepel, who lived “on the old bridge,” was in business in Amsterdam be- 
tween 1525 and 1540. He also is not mentioned by Panzer. 


THE COVERDALE BIBLE 
[ZURicH: FROscHOVER (?)| OcToBErR 4, 1535 


2,300\0015. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. [Title] Biblia |The Bible, that jis, the holy 
Scripture of the |Olde and New Testament, faith- |fully and truly 
translated out |of Douche and Latyn |in to Englishe. |M.D.XXXV 
. . . [Colophon.] Prynted in the yeare of oure Lorde M.D.XXXV. | 
and fynisshed the fourth daye of October. 

Thick folio, full brown morocco, broad blind-tooled borders on 
sides, gilt back, inside morocco borders covered with heavy gilt 
fillets, gilt edges. In full claret crushed French levant morocco 
solander case. 

[See Illustration on preced:ng page] 


First EDITION OF THE COMPLETE BIBLE IN ENGLISH. 

COLLATION: Black letter; 8 preliminary leaves comprising,—Title within 
woodcut border, verso blank, 2 pp.; Dedication, 5 pp.; A prologe, 6 pp.: The 
bokes of the hole Byble, 2 pp.; The first boke of Moses, called Genesis what this boke 
conteyneth, 1 p.; Text, divided into six parts,—(1) Pentateuch, folios i to xc , 
verso blank; (2) Joshua to Esther, title within woodcut border, contents of 
Joshua on verso, and text folios ij to cxx; (3) Job to Salamons Balettes, folios i 
to lija, verso blank; (4) Isaiah to Malachi, title within woodcut border, contents 
of Isaiah on verso, and text folios ij to cij; (5) Apocrypha, title within woodcut 
border, preface on verso, and text folios ij to Ixxxi (really 83); (6) New Testa- 
ment, title within woodcut border, contents of Matthew on verso, and text 
folios ij to cxiij, Colophon below end of text; total 568 leaves, 2 columns, 57 lines 
and headlines; 12 by 200 mm. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Woodcut borders around titles and a large number of wood- 
cuts in the text. These woodcuts are chiefly by Hans Sebald Beham, many 
which were issued separately as his Bible Illustrations by Egenolph of Frank- 

ort. 
[ Continued 


Under the Management of the American Art Association 


Kindly read the Conditions of Sale Printed in forepart of this catalogue 


[No. 15. BIBLE IN ENGLIsH. Coverdale Bible.—Continued] 


CONDITION: EXCESSIVELY RARE IN ANy ConpiTIOoN, No PERFECT Copy BE- 
ING Known. THIS Is AN UNCOMMONLY GOoop Copy, lacking only the main 
title and first two leaves of the Dedication (all three of which are supplied in 
facsimile), the map, blank leaf at end of Apocrypha and blank leaf at end of 
New Testament; two leaves are split across and mended, some lower plain 
margins restored and a few marginal references are shaved, but the bulk is in 
first-rate condition. The map (not in this copy) is not an integral part of the 
volume, having been inserted only in some copies of edition by Nycolson, the 
English bookseller. 

A note on the final fly-leaf of this copy, written by Mr. Ferguson, represent - 
ing Mr. Bernard Quaritch through whose hands the volume passed in 1908, 
reads,—“Title, first two ll. of dedication, in facsimile; 3R¢ & 2Ts (both blank) & 
map missing. Otherwise perfect.” This note errs as to the signature of the first 
mentioned blank, it being O8 and not Rrr® which is lacking. 

REFLREN E': Darlow and Moule, No. 7. 

Copies LocaTED: There are copies in the British Museum, the John Rylands 
Library, and some other public libraries, none of the copies being perfect. 

Tuts Is THE FAMOUS DENT-BENSON-PERKINS-LORD AMHERST Copy. At 
Lord Amherst’s sale in London, December 3, 1908, it was sold to Quaritch; sub- 
sequently, it became the property of Walter T. Wallace. Sotheby’s catalogue 
of Lord Amherst’s sale says that “so good a copy has not been sold by auction 
since the Ashburnham sale in 1896.” The present copy surpasses the Lord 
Ashburnham copy, in condition, as the latter lacked the title, all the dedication 
leaves, one leaf of Prologue, initial of the first chapter of Genesis, top corner 
of folio xii, and part of the Map, and had 20 other leaves repaired. 

In 1900 the Editor of Book Prices Current (1900—p. 382) expressed the 
opinion that, of the known copies of the Coverdale Bible, the Osterly copy 
ranked first as to condition, the Leicester copy second, and the Ashburnham 
copy third. Certainly the present copy ranks fourth, and if the number of 
missing leaves is alone the determining factor it should have a still higher place. 
Only an expert comparison of all four copies can decide the point. The same 
editor, in describing a very defective copy which he had seen, measuring 12 x 734 
inches, states that is is “one of the largest, if not the largest known.” The 
present copy measures 12% by 7 7% inches. 

THE EpiT1o PRINCEPS| OF THE PRINTED ENGLISH BIBLE, translated by 
Myles Coverdale, a Yorkshireman (educated at Cambridge), during a long exile 
upon the Continent. Coverdale later returned to England and was made Bishop 
of Exeter in 1551, but was deprived of his see in 1553 and again exiled, returning 
to London at a later date, where he died in 1568. 

It was Coverdale’s glory to produce the first printed English Bible. It was 
translated from the Latin and the Swiss-German versions for the most part, as 
he himself states on the title and in his dedication. It is in this edition that 
the curious renderings are first found which later gave the name of the “Bug and 
Treacle Bible” to the early English editions, v7z.,— “So yt thou shalt not nede 
to be afrayed for eny bugges by night” (Psalms 91:5), and “There is no more 
Triacle at Galaad” (Jer. 8:22). 

Nothing definite is known as to the place of printing. The type of the body 
of the book has never been satisfactorily identified, but it is generally believed 
that the work was done by Froschover at Ztirich, who printed the Coverdale 
Bible of 1550. 


Tote WILLIAM CC. VAN ANTWERP ‘COLLeCTTOy 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


MAGNA CHARTA 
[Lonpon] 1587 


/5 0016. MAGNA CHARTA. Magna Charta cum | statutis, tum antiquis 
| tum | recentibus, maximopere, | animo tenendis, nunc demum | 
| ad vnum, tipis edeta, | per Richardum | Tottill. | Anno Domini 

1587... 

Small 8vo, “old, probably contemporary, binding of stamped 
leather in poor condition, in new pocket cover of full brown 
morocco. 


COLLATION: English and French text in Black Letter; Latin text in Roman 
type; 8 preliminary leaves consisting of title, preface, table, and one blank; 
text 250 numbered leaves; 142; 96 mm. 

ConpiTIoNn: Edges of first and last leaves somewhat frayed and stained, last 
leaf wormed, some other leaves water-stained, stitching shaken. Marginal 
notes in Latin in an old hand. 

) With the following inscription on title,—“This booke belongs to me Edward 
Clarke.” 


ROYAL COPY OF TASSO’S LA GIERUSALEMME LIBERATA 
PARIS, 1644 


| PRESENTED BY CARDINAL MAZARIN TO QUEEN CHRISTINA 
| OF SWEDEN 


les 5] 0017. TASSO (TORQUATO). La GreRusALEMME LIBERATA. [Engraved 
title.| Il Goffredo | overo | La Giervsalemme Liberata | Di Tor- 
qvato | Tasso. | [Imprint.] In Parigi nella Stamperia Reale. 
MDCXLIV. 

Folio, full contemporary citron morocco, sides with broad gilt 
borders containing coronet and fleur-de-lis at corners, with ARMS 
OF QUEEN CHRISTINA, in gilt, in center medallion on both covers, 
gilt panelled back with coronet and fleur-de-lis in each panel, gilt 
edges. In full red crushed levant morocco solander case. 


COLLATION: Half-title, one leaf; engraved title, 1 leaf; Allegoria del Poema, 4 
leaves; text, pages I to 502; final leaf with engraved vignette on recto. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Engraved title and numerous engraved vignette head- and 
tail-pieces, initial letters and final large vignette, by Rousselet. 

PRESENTATION COPY FROM CARDINAL MAZARIN TO QUEEN CHRISTINA OF 
SWEDEN, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, with presentation inscription on title 
reading,— “Presente d sa majeste La Reine d. Suede par monsteur L’ Eminentissime 
Cardinal Mazarini premier ministre du Roy tres chrestien Le 2 Ianuier 1647.” 

With bookplate of W. K. Bixby on inside of cover. 

The volume is a sumptuous production of the Royal Press, in a beautiful con- 
temporary binding, embellished with the coronet and fleur-de-lis, signifying 
the close relationship of the two countries, which, at the time the book was 
presented, were united by treaties drawn by Mazarin himself. 

When this book was presented to her, Christina was in her 21st year, bril- 
liantly governing a Protestant country. Seven years later, in the prime of 
life, she voluntarily renounced her crown, joined the Roman Catholic Church 
through Mazarin’s influence, and departed from her country in masculine attire. 
Subsequently she visited Cardinal Mazarin in Paris, 


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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT XIIITH CENTURY 
Reduced Facsimile of First Page of “Romans” 


[ No. 18] 


THe WittiaAmM C. VAn ANTWERP COLLECTION 
Monday Evening, May 1st 


ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM 
XUItH CENTURY 


WILLIAM MORRIS’S BIBLE 


S500\0018. WILLIAM MORRIS’SBIBLE. Brste, Vutcate. BIBLIA SACRA. 
Thick 8vo, 15th Century binding of full brown stamped morocco 
over oak boards, cruciform design in center panel, framed with 
band of small interlaced curved tools between five blind fillets, 
marks for clasps, edges and back slightly worn. In full claret 
crushed French levant morocco solander case. 


[See Illustration on preceding page| 


CoLLATION: Illuminated Manuscript of the 13th Century probably of 
Spanish workmanship. Written in small GoTHIC CHARACTERS in black, on 395 
leaves of FINE VELLUM, 2 columns, 55 lines and headlines, 210 by 140 mm. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: With about fifty large capitals beautifully illuminated in 
burnished gold and colors, many containing tiny miniatures, most of them 
extending into marginal decorations containing grotesque figures, birds, animals, 
etc., many other large capitals similarly illuminated without borders; smaller 
capitals, page headings-and chapter numbers alternately in red and blue, many 
of the capitals extended into arabesque designs in colored inks in the margins. 

ConpITION: Beautiful manuscript revealing a minute detail of pen-work 
almost unbelievably free from blemish and with the illuminations in excellent 
condition throughout. The two final leaves of Table are lacking, leaves 311 
and 312 have lower margins cut away, several other margins have cuts in the 
vellum and a few leaves are water-stained. 

OrIGcIN: Of Spanish origin and originally in the Salva Library, the book 
became later the property of WirL1AmM Morris, whose bookplate, “Kelmscott 
House, Hammersmith,” is on the inner cover. 

This is really a Museum copy. Although Spanish in origin, it is singularly 
free from imitative and derivative influences. It reveals in its many illuminated 
capitals all the delicate charm of Gothic art which toward the end of the 13th 
Century became divested of formalism and severity. The initials and tail- 
pieces are spirited and amusing, with fishes, birds, beasts, human forms, gar- 
goyles and grotesques quaintly combined in a spirit of medieval humor. Thus 
aside from its symbolism, this Bible is delightful from its artistic side. The 
figures are graceful and delicate, and the colors, in which burnished gold and 
deep blue are freely used, are singularly well-preserved. 

Too much cannot be said of the pen-work, which should be studied under a 
glass. Apparently all of the 395 leaves were done by the same hand, and a 
long life must have been spent in the work. 


ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM 
FRANCE, CIRCA 1390 13eS 


/2900\ 0019. FROISSART (JEHAN). CHRONICLES, 1326 to 4835. 2 vols. in 
one, thick folio, new vellum, with the original gilt edges and 
stitching preserved. Enclosed in full dark maroon crushed 
French levant morocco solander case, BY RIVIERE. 


[See Frontispiece and Illustration on opposite page] 


CoLLATION: Illuminated Manuscript of the late Fourteenth Century, 
French School. Written in lettres batardes in red and black on 363 leaves 
(including 2 blanks) of FINE VELLUM, 2 columns, 48 and 49 lines; 369 by 275 mm. 


[ Continued 


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ILLUMINATED XIVTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT 
FROISSART—CHRONICLES 
Reduced Facsimile of Illuminated Page 
[ No. 19 ] 


Toe WILLIAM C. VAN ANTWERP COLLECTION 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 19. FROISSART (JEHAN). Chronicles—Continued] 


ILLUSTRATIONS: The first leaf of the first volume contains a large miniature 
(123 by 197 mm.), beautifully painted in colors and gold with diapered back- 
ground in gold, red and blue, within frame of burnished gold and colored fil- 
lets, large initial letter in red, blue and burnished gold inclosing arms (shield, 
helmet and crest) of Pierre de Fontenoy, Siegneur de Broyes, for whom the 
volume was illuminated, the entire page surrounded with beautiful floral 
border in gold and colors, with angelic figures at three corners, the shield of 
Pierre de Fontenoy at center of upper and lower, and full arms in outer border; 
a second large miniature (153 by 174 mm.), at beginning of the second vol- 
ume (leaf 265), framed in gold and colored fillets with the French and English 
standards above; 31 other finely executed miniatures similarly illuminated, many 
with diapered backgrounds in burnished gold and colors, blue predominating; 
several miniatures with elaborate borders containing the standards or banners 
of the prominent persons who fought in the battles portrayed; large initial 
letters in gold and colors at beginning of each chapter, containing the arms 
of Pierre de Fontenoy, and hundreds of smaller capitals throughout also in 
burnished gold and colors. 

CONDITION: A MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE OF THE BEST STYLE OF THE MINIA- 
TURIST’S ART OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. IN PRACTICALLY PERFECT 
CONDITION. THE CoLors BRILLIANT, THE LEAVES CLEAN AND FRESH. AN 
ExQuIsITE Work, WITH A DEPTH, BRILLIANCE AND RICH MARTIAL ATMOs- 
PHERE TO THE PAINTINGS AND BORDERS QUITE IN KEEPING WITH THE SUR- 
ROUNDINGS IN WHICH FROISSART LIVED AND WoRKED WHILE WRITING His 
“CHRONICLES.” 

It is safe to say that no textual manuscript of Froissart exists today in a 
more perfect state than the volume here presented; that none exists of an ear- 
lier date; that none is so rich in heraldic blazoning, and that none has a more 
delightful association interest. 

The PIERRE DE FONTENOY, SIEUR DE BROYES-THOMAS SACKVILLE, EARL OF 
DoRSET-WILLIAM CECIL, AND LORD BURGHLEY-LORD MoysTyn Copy, with the 
Arms of the first emblazoned in the manuscript, and presentation inscription 
from Thomas Sackville to Lord Burghley on fly-leaf. 

ORIGIN: Regarding the original owner of this volume, we are now enabled 
to speak with authority. The manuscript was not written and illuminated 
for Holland, Earl of Kent, as Lord Mostyn’s Catalogue conjectured, but for 
Pierre de Fontenoy, Seigneur de Broyes, Beaufort, Baye, Trie-le Bardoul et 
Charmentre, friend of King Charles VI of France, and one of a family famed in 
French History from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries. Many books from 
his library are now in the Bzblzothéque Nationale, and photographs showing his 
Arms in these books are laid in the present volume together with data written 
by French savants concerning him. 

Fontenoy’s arms and his motto, “Nulla autre,” are repeated three times in 
the floral borders which surround the first page, and the arms reappear fre- 
quently in the capitals throughout this book. For verification consult, An- 
selme, Vol. II, p. 339; Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothéque Nationale, 
Tome III, p. 383, and Tome II, p. 367, also a letter from M. Léon Mirot, 
Archiviste aux Archives Nationales, Paris, which is laid in the volume, and 
of which the following extract is a translation,— 

This manuscript is one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful of 
the Frotssarts of the 14th Century. The fact is established beyond doubt 
that the illuminated arms which appear throughout the manuscript are those 
of Pierre de Fontenoy who married Marie de Broyes in 1393. His arms are,— 
Sable semi de trefles d'argent au léopard lionne du meme, with which are 
quartered the arms of his wife,—Azur, aux trots broyes d’or. 

“Pierre de Fontenoy was a very important personage in the court of the 
Dukes of Burgundy, Philip le Hardi and Jean sans Peur. He was Governor 


[ Continued 


Under the Management of the American Art Association 


Kindly read the Conditions of Sale Printed in forepart of this catalogue 


[No. 19. FROISSART (JEHAN). Chronicles.—Continued] 


of the Finances of the Realm and of the Property of the King, the Queen and 
the Dauphin. 

“I believe this manuscript was written and illuminated about the year 1400. 
[Signed] Léon Mirot.” 

The arms as painted in the manuscript are those of de Fontenoy only in 
some instances, and in others include the quarterings of his wife. 

In the Sixteenth Century this book became the property of Thomas Sackville, 
First Earl of Dorset, Lord Buckhurst (wealthy English peer, patron of art and 
friend of Queen Elizabeth), who subsequently presented it to his friend William 
Cecil, the great Lord Burghley (1520-1598), High Treasurer of England under 
Queen Elizabeth, “the most powerful man in the Kingdom” (Dictionary of 
Nattonal Biography). Sackville, collaborating with Thomas Norton, produced, 
in 1561, the first English tragedy, ‘ ‘Gorbuduc,” three years before the birth of 
Shakespeare. In presenting this royal manuscript of Froissart to his friend, 
Sackville (Lord Buckhurst) has written a fitting inscription which. appears 
at the top of the blank vellum fly-leaf, as follows,—“Hunc librum Gulielmo 
Cecilio equitt aurato, donavit fidelissimus amicus suus. T. Buckehurst.” 

It would be difficult to find a more delightful relic of the friendship existing 
between these two shining lights of literature and statesmanship who together 
adorned the reign of Elizabeth in the dawn of England’s Renaissance. 

This book was recently found in the library of the Mostyns of Mostyn 
Hall, Mostyn, North Wales, where, as Lord Mostyn says in a manuscript 
notation laid inside the cover, it has reposed since 1690. It was then sold in 
London. Unknown to students and bibliographers and very inadequately 
catalogued in the sale, its importance was not fully realized until after the sale, 
when it was submitted to the officials of the British Museum, the Bibliotheque 
Nationale, the Bibliothéque de l’ Arsenal, to Léon Mirot, Archiviste aux Archives 
Nationales and other authorities. The importance of the manuscript then 
became apparent. Letters from these French authorities regarding the manu- 
script have been received by the present owner, from which the following 
extracts are translated,— 

Henry Martin of the Bibliotheque de Il’ Arsenal writes,—(translation) “It 
is in effect, a manuscript particularly precious, and without doubt one of 
the most ancient which is known. ... The text, as far as a rapid examina- 
tion has permitted me to judge, appears very correct and should be of incon- 
testable utility for the future editions of the Chronicles. The miniatures which 
decorate the volume, as well as the blazons, are very curious. One of the 
miniatures, that which is found at the head of the second book on folio 230 
li. e. 265] offers a very particular interest: it represents an entrance to Paris, 
and, above the doorway of the city is seen the blazon of the City of Paris, with 
the ship and fleur-de-lis. This, to my knowledge, is the most ancient blazon 
painted of the City of Paris... .” 

Léon Mirot writes,—( (translation) “The Manuscript of Froissart which you have 
so kindly allowed me to examine is of the greatest interest. The state of preser- 
vation is perfect; but its principal value is the date at which it was executed; 
the writing is that of the extreme end of the Fourteenth or the beginning of 
the Fifteenth Century. The arms of the proprietor, which appear to be those 
of Pierre de Fontenoy, permit us to attribute it to the first years of the Fif- 
teenth Century. The miniatures which ornament it are in a perfect state 
of conservation, exceedingly interesting, and some of them, such for example 
as the blazon in colors of the City of Paris (one of the most ancient, to my 
knowledge) are documents of great interest. This blazoning, very interesting 
for the art of heraldry, adds still more to its value. It is a manuscript of the 
first rank. In another letter, recently received from Monsieur Mirot, he says 
further, referring particularly to the miniatures depicting the various battles, and 
to the numerous colored banners accompanying them,— (translation) This is a 
unique peculiarity, I believe, and one which much augments the value of the 


[ Continued 


THe WriuLiam G. Van ANTWERP CODD B Om 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 19. FROISSART (JEHAN). Chronicles.—Continued] 


manuscript. Their depiction, and as I think, the authentication of their cor- 
rectness renders this document still more precious.” 

H. Omont, Conservateur des Manuscrits, Bibilothéque Nationale, says,— 
(translation) “This is certainly one of the earliest and most precious manuscripts 
of the Chronicles.” Léon Gruel says,—(translation) “This is a work for a great 
collection and one of the most interesting books which one could possibly see. 
(These and other letters similarly authoritative and interesting, including 
Lord Mostyn’s statement, are laid inside the cover of the volume.) 

The Daily Telegraph, London, July 14, 1920, says,—“This Mostyn illu- 
mination of Froissart’s Chronicles is probably earlier than the well-known 
manuscript at Breslau which, it is interesting to remember, was secured to 
that town in a separate article when Breslau capitulated to the French in 1806.” 

These first two books of the Chronicles were written by Froissart at Va- 
lenciennes and finished in 1389 when he was fifty-one years of age. The first 
book includes the history from 1326 to 1359, when he carried it to England 
and presented it to Queen Philippa, which presentation is depicted in the large 
miniature at the beginning of the first book in the present copy. The second 
book was written between 1385 and 1389 and concludes with the Peace the 
Men of Ghent obtained from the Duke of Burgundy on December 18, 1386. 
Two additional books appeared after Froissart’s death, but as will be seen 
from the Ciwres de Frotssart, by M. le Baron Kervin de Lettenhove (Vol. 
I, page 11), the additional volumes were not the work of Froissart but merely 
the caprice of copyists, without especial value. Baron Lettenhove adds that 
ane additional books belong to an epoch following the middle of the Fifteenth 

“entury. 

In the article in the Encyclotazdia Britannica on Froissart, is the following 
regarding his work at the time of writing the Chronicles,—“He probably ac- 
quired at this period [1380] that art, in which he has never been surpassed, 
of making people tell him all they knew. No newspaper correspondent, no 
American interviewer, has ever equalled this medieval Collector of intelli- 
gence. From Queen Philippa, who confided to him the tender story of her 
youthful and lasting love for her great husband, down to the simplest knight— 
Froissart conversed with none beneath the rank of gentlemen—all united in 
telling this man what he wanted to know. He wanted to know everything; 
he liked the story of a battle from both sides and from many points of view; 
he wanted the details of every little cavalry skirmish, every capture of a castle, 
every gallant action and brave deed. And what was more remarkable, he 
forgot nothing.” 

THE ILLUMINATED MINIATURES IN THE VOLUME CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING: 

The large miniature on first leaf represents the Author, Froissart, on his 
knees presenting his book to King Edward III of England; the King of France 
stands nearby, holding the hand of Queen Philippa, to whom Froissart was 
pe of the Closet. She holds by the hand her eldest son, Edward, the Black 

rince. 

The other large miniature, at beginning of the second volume, shows Lord 
de Moncident, mounted and with three attendants, leaving Paris by night, to join © 
the English. Above the buildings of Paris floats the French standard of the 
three gold fleur-de-lis on a blue ground, over the doorway the symbols of the 
city of Paris, a band of blue with gold fleur-de-lis and a ship, which, as men- 
tioned above, is believed to be the earliest painted representation of the arms 
of Paris. On the opposite (English) side, is seen the banner of England, three 
lions in gold on a red standard. A PAINTING OF GREAT ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST. 

The smaller miniatures, 31 in number, represent all the important battles 
by sea and land prior to 1385, as described by Froissart, which are, in the order 
of their appearance,—The Battle of Cassell in Flanders, 1328; Battle of Ga- 
gant, 1337; Naval Battle between the English and French before Sluys, 1340; 
Sea Engagement off Guernsey, 1342; Battle of Blanchetaque; Battle of Crécy, 


[Continued 


ILLUMINATED XVTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT 


WYCLIFFE—NEW TESTAMENT IN E 


YGLISH 


Reduced Facsimile of First Page of “Romans” 
[No. 20] 


Toe WiuutiAmM C. VAn ANTWERP COLLECTION 
Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 19. FROISSART (JEHAN). Chronicles.—Continued] 


August 26, 1346, with elaborate border containing 31 banners, among them 
those of Edward III, of the Black Prince, Northampton, Arundel, Stafford, 
of the English side, Philip of Valois, John of Bohemia, Alencon and John of 
Hainault among the French; Battle of Neufchatel; Battle of La Roche d’Er- 
rain; Battle of Calais, 1347, with banners of the Dukes of Bourbon, Bur- 
gundy, Savoy and Hainault, of the French, of the Earls of Derby and North- 
ampton, and Lord Cobham of the English; Battle of Poitiers, September 19, 
1356, with banners of the Black Prince, Sir John Chandos, and the Earls of 
Warwick, Oxford, Suffolk and Stafford of the English, and of King John, 
Charles of Normandy, the Dukes of Anjou, Orleans, Bourbon, Ponthieu, Cha- 
tillon and others of the French; Battle of Constantin, 1356; Death of the Jac- 
querie of Beauvoisis; Battle of Meaux, 1358; Battle of the Porte St. Honore, 
1358; Siege of the Castle of Mauconseil, August, 1358; Battle of Roucy, 
1359; Battle of Cocherel, 1364, with nine banners; Battle of Navaretta, in 
Spain, April 2, 1367; Battle of Monteil, August 13, 1368; Naval Engagement 
before La Rochelle, 1372; Battle of Poitou, 1372; Engagement before Cher- 
bourg, 1378, with two pennons; Crowning of the King of France; Battle of 
Nevele, April, 1382; Bruges taken by the Ghent Army, 1382; Fray at the 
Bridge of Commines, November, 1382; Battle of Rosebecque, at which Philip 
Van Artaveld was slain, November 27, 1382; Battle of Dunkirk, 1383. 

All these illuminations are in gold and brilliant colors, many with check- 
ered diaper backgrounds, and in addition there are several hundred delicately 
ee capitals in burnished gold, with delightful pen-work scroll fillings and 
borders. 


ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM 
LATE XIVTH CENTURY 


/ 500.0020. BIBLE. NEw TESTAMENT IN ENGLISH. Translated. by John 
Wycliffe. Quarto, new vellum, blue marbled edges. 


[See Illustration on preceding page] 


CoLLATION: Illuminated Manuscript of the late 14th Century, in English. 
Written in GOTHIC CHARACTERS in black, on 232 leaves of vellum, 2 columns, 
35 lines and headlines; 257 by 182 mm. Ruled margins. 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Beautiful foliated borders in burnished gold and colors on 
versos of first leaf (beginning of Matthew) and of leaf 92 (beginning of Romans), 
the first including two shields with bearings; partial border in similar 
design at beginning of Prologue on first page; large initial letters and many 
smaller capitals in burnished gold and colors, other capitals in blue with red 
pen-work extended into arabesques in margins; page headings and rubrics in 
red, paragraph marks in blue. 

CONDITION: Excellent condition throughout, aside from a few worm-holes. 
Very clean and with unusually wide margins. Complete, with original blank 
vellum leaf at beginning and two blanks at end. 

Of early manuscripts of Wycliffe’s famous Bible scarcely any copies exist 
outside the museums, and of these many are mere fragments. But two copies, 
both very imperfect, have appeared at auction in forty years; the last one was 
sold at Christie’s in 1905 for £550. The copy here offered is perfect and com- 
plete. As it was written during Wycliffe’s lifetime it is of great value. 

Wycliffe probably began the work of translation of the Bible about 1380. His 
whole teaching put the book in quite a different position from that which was 
assigned to it by common medieval tradition. All his works exalt the authority 
of the Bible, whether as compared with that of later fathers or doctors, or as 


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ILLUMINATED XVTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT 
BIBLIA SACRA 
Reduced Facsimile of First Page of “Psalms” 
[No. 21] 


Toe WritLtIam ©C. Van ANTWERP COLL BODO 


Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 20. BiBLE. Wycliffe’s New Testament.—Continued| 


compared with that of the contemporary prelacy and priesthood, and he insists 
much on the necessity of its being accessible to all Christians. Wycliffe had 
begun the great protestant appeal to Scripture against the abuses of the media- 
val church. The demand for a closer acquaintance with its text on the part 
of the laity was the natural sequel. 

Parts of the Bible had already been done into Anglo-Saxon and into English, 
especially the great treasure-houses of medizval devotion, the Psalms; and the 
whole Bible had been translated into the Court-French dialect, which had now 
ceased to be the living language of the highest classes. Wycliffe and his asso- 
ciates for the first time conceived and executed the great task of translating the 
whole Bible into the vulgar tongue. Wycliffe himself translated the Gospels, 
and probably the whole New Testament. Afterwards it was revised by John 
Purvey, his friend and parochial chaplain, or, as we should say, his “curate,” 
at Lutterworth. The work was completed about 1388, certainly before 1400. 


ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM 
MIDDLE XVTH CENTURY 


4/5 0.021. BIBLE. Bipiia Sacra Latina. Genesis to Psalms inclusive. 
Small 4to, new full dark blue crushed French levant morocco, 
sides and backs ornately gilt in the style of Derome, inside morocco 
borders with gilt fillets and corner designs, brass clasps, gilt edges, 
BY ZAEHNSDORF. 
[See Illustration on preceding page|] 


COLLATION: Illuminated Manuscript of the middle of the 15th Century, 
French School. Written in clear GoTHIC CHARACTERS in black, on 417 leaves of 
FINE VELLUM, 2 columns, 37 lines and headlines; 192 by 140 mm. Quired 
in es: with catchwords at end of each quire. Initial strokes and rubrics 
in re 

ILLUSTRATIONS: Three full fcliate borders illuminated in burnished gold and 
colors, each completely surrounding the page and also extending between the 
columns; miniature of St. Jerome at beginning of Prologue; 41 large initial 
letters illuminated in burnished gold and colors, each with partial border of 
flowers and fruits; hundreds of smaller capitals similarly illuminated. 

ConDITION: Beautiful manuscript in wonderfully fine condition through- 
out. The vellum is unusually fine, the leaves quite free from injury by damp- 
ness, mutilation or close cutting. The original manuscript signature marks are 
found on most of the leaves. 

The volume comprises the first part of the Bible only, ending with the 
Psalms, below which the rubricator has written the words, “Explicit psalterium,” 
and the date “7408,” both in red. 

This ancient and beautiful volume would have delighted the heart of William 
Morris. The illumination throughout is “marvellous” as a French authority 
puts it, and the border ornamentation is entitled to the same high praise. The 
gold is laid on very heavily, beautifully burnished to even the smallest capitals, 
and is nowhere chipped or broken. The borders are exquisitely executed in the 
ivy-leaf pattern combined with the delicate tendrils, colored foliage, flowers, 
etc., which came into prominence in French and Flemish illumination during 
the first half of the 15th Century. The wealth of burnished gold capitals is 
most unusual, one or more being found in every chapter of the different books 
and at the beginning of each verse throughout the Psalms. 


IX GUVYMd 


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o[TUISOB prenpesy 
LEST “IVAS LVGUD HLIM SINALVd SHALLATI TVAOU 


a—INGNNO0d HSITONG 


THe WitutiaAmM C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 
Monday Evening, May 1st 


ENGLISH ROYAL DOCUMENT WITH GREAT SEAL 
WESTMINSTER, ApRIL 1, 1547 
Royal Letters Patent 


‘700.0022. EDWARD VI, KING OF ENGLAND. DOCUMENT SIGNED 
IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF KING EDWARD,—“Edward.” 
ROYAL LETTERS PATENT creating a Mint and Assay Office 
at Canterbury, also signed in the autographs of,—“E. Somerset, 
T. Cantburion, W. St. John [William Paulet], J. Russell, J. War- 
rewyk, Seymour, Cuth. Durehme, Anthone browne, W. Herbert.” 
Document on vellum, 307 by 568 mm. With indorsements on 
back. With fine impression of King Edward’s GREAT SEAL, 
about 127 mm. in diameter, attached by original vellum strips. 
In fitted velvet tray, enclosed in atlas folio case, full midnight blue 
crushed levant morocco, gilt lettered, metal fasteners. Laid in is a 
facsimile reproduction of the document and seal. 


[See Illustration on preceding page] 


ONE OF THE RAREST TUDOR DOCUMENTS KNOWN. WITH THE AUTOGRAPH 
SIGNATURE OF KING EpwArD Two MontTus AFTER His ACCESSION, WHEN HE 
WAS BUT TEN YEARS OF AGE, AND CONTAINING ALSO THE AUTOGRAPH SIGNA- 
TURES OF THE ENTIRE COUNCIL OF REGENCY, v12.— 

(1) Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, uncle to King Edward 
VI, beheaded in 1552; 

(2) Thomas Cranmer, Archbisnop of Canterbury, burned at the stake, Oxford, 
1556. An excessively rare autograph; 

(3) William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester (then Baron St. John), Lord Keeper 
of the Great Seal, and one of the judges who tried Mary Queen of Scots; 

(4) John, Lord Russell, afterward Earl of Bedford, Lord Privy Seal, Lord High 
Admiral of England, and the favorite of Henry VIII; 

(5) John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, afterward Duke of Northumberland, 
Lord Protector after the fall of Somerset; beheaded in 1553; 

(6) Thomas, Lord Seymour, Lord High Admiral, Uncle to Edward VII, be- 
headed 1549; 

(7) Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, Executor of the will of Henry VIII; 

(8) Sir Anthony Browne, Secretary of State; 

(9) William Herbert, Clerk of the Council of the Regency, Executor and 
beneficiary of Henry VIII’s will, Privy Councillor under Mary and under 
Elizabeth. 

The King’s Royal Sign Manual accompanied by the Great Seal is very rare. 
Ordinarily documents signed by the King did not bear the Seal, or documents 
bearing the Seal did not contain the signature. 


ENGLISH ROYAL DOCUMENT WITH GREAT SEAL 
WESTMINSTER, FEBRUARY 5, 1561 


Royal Letters Patent 


/ 30.0023. ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. ROYAL LETTERS 
PATENT, granting to Sir Richard Lee, Knight, highway rights 

“on London Waite from St. Albans to Colney.” Signed, “Cordell.” 

Document on parchment, 193 by 450 mm. Indorsed on back,— 

[ Continued 


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g[tuIsoR,y peonpey 


LOCL “IVAS LVAUD HLIM SINALVd SUALLAT TVAOU 


HLAAVZITA NAANO—LNAWNOO0d HSTIOSNGA 


THe WiutiaAm C. Van ANTWERP COLLECTION 
Monday Evening, May 1st 


[No. 23. ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Royal Document.—Con- 
tinued | 


“Ve graunt of fee highwate for Sir Richard Lee knight in anno grlle(?) 
Elizabeth 117. London way torwed(?).” With fine impression of 
the First GREAT SEAL, about 130 mm. in diameter, attached 
at bottom fold by original parchment strips. Folded, in fitted 
tray, enclosed in small 4to case, full brown straight-grain morocco, 
gilt lettered, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, back of case scraped, 
Laid in is a modern transcription of the document in pen-and-ink. 


[See Illustration on preceding page] 


AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND VALUABLE ITEM. THE GREAT SEAL IS IN 
WONDERFUL STATE OF PRESERVATION. 

Sir Richard Lee, to whom the above letters were granted, was presented by 
King Henry VIII with the monastery domains at St. Albans for his brilliant 
services in the defence of Boulogne. Edward VI similarly rewarded him with 
the Priory of Newent in Gloucestershire. Queen Mary added to his wealth, 
as did also Queen Elizabeth, whom he served with distinction both in diplo- 
matic missions and in military duties. 

Sir William Cordell, whose signature appears at the foot of the document, 
was Privy Councillor under Queen Maryand Master of the Rolls under Elizabeth. 
He died in 1581. 


ENGLISH ROYAL DOCUMENT WITH GREAT SEAL 
WESTMINSTER, Marcu 11, 1574 
Deed of Exchange 


/ 20.0024. ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. DOCUMENT SIGNED 
IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH,—*Eliza- 
beth R.”. DEED OF EXCHANGE in which Sir Thomas Heneage 
deeds to Her Majesty the Priory of Nun Ormesby and other prop- 
erty, in exchange for certain manors in Suffolk, Norfolk, Kent and 
Essex. Signed in the Queen’s autograph at beginning, and at end 
by,—“W Burghley” (William Cecil, Lord Burghley), “Wr. Muzuld- 
may” (Sir Walter Mildmay), “Eyre,” and “Th. Bromley” (clerks). 
Document on vellum, 635 by 760 mm. With signature of, “M. 
Henneage,’ on back, also indorsement, signed,—“Ludley (?) 11 
March 16. Eliz.” With fine impression of the FIRST GREAT 
SEAL, about 135 mm. in diameter, attached at bottom fold by 
original vellum strips. Folded, in fitted velvet tray, enclosed in 
royal 4to case, full red straight-grain morocco, gilt lettered, BY 
SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE. Laid in is a modern manuscript tran- 
scription of the document in pen-and-ink. 


[See Illustration on opposite page] 


Most RARE ITEM, CONTAINING THE AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE OF QUEEN 
ELIZABETH AND IMPRESSION OF HER FIRST GREAT SEAL INTACT, aside from 
slight chip at one side of border. 

Sir Thomas Heneage, died 1595, was Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber and 
Keeper of the Records of the Tower jointly with his brother, Michael Heneage 
whose autograph signature appears on the back of the document. 

[ Continued 


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ENGLISH DOCUMENT—QUEEN ELIZABETH 
DEED OF EXCHANGE, WITH GREAT SEAL, 1574 
Reduced Facsimile of Seal and Part of Document showing Signature 
[No. 24] 


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[No. 24. ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Royal Document.—Con- 

tinued | 

William Cecil, Lord Burghley, was Minister of State, Lord High Treasurer 
and the most powerful man of his day. Of him the Dictionary of National Btog- 
raphy says,—‘“By him more than by any other single man during the last thirty 
years of his life (1568-1598) was the history of England written.” 

Sir Walter Mildmay, who also signed the document, was Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, founder of Emanuel College, Cambridge, and a great friend of the 
Queen as well as of Lord Burghley. 


ENGLISH ROYAL DOCUMENT WITH GREAT SEAL 
WESTMINSTER, FEBRUARY 6, 1610 
Royal Letters Patent 


] 25.0025. JAMES I, KING OF ENGLAND. LETTERS PATENT, con- 
ferring upon Sir Robert Harley the right to establish and maintain 
a weekly market and annual fair at the town of Wigmore, Here- 
ford. Document on parchment, 473 by 728 mm., with miniature 
portrait of King James and upper border containing the Tudor 
rose, lions and crowns, in black and white. Folded at bottom and 
with fine impression of the GREAT SEAL, 155 mm. in diameter, 
attached at fold by the original cords. Mounted on black velvet 
and framed under glass. Small tear in right margin, otherwise 
in excellent state of preservation. 


[See Illustration on opposite page] 


Sir Robert Harley (1579-1656) was Master of the Mint, served in the 
Long Parliament with distinction and his castle at Brampton Bryan 
was captured by the Royalist forces in 1644. The Dictionary of National 
Biography mentions the grant which is confirmed in the above Letters Patent. 
Sir Robert was the grandfather of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford and 
Chancellor of the Exchequer. 


ENGLISH ROYAL DOCUMENT WITH GREAT SEAL 
WESTMINSTER, JANUARY 19, 1622 


/ 0§-0026. JAMES 1, KING OF ENGLAND. LICENSE OF ALIENATION 
in respect of property in the parish of St. Sepulchre, Newgate. 
Document on parchment, 370 by 271 mm. With indorsements 
on back, first signed by “Edmond Godfrey,” the second reading,— 
“A License of alienation from Anne Guinnes (?) widowe to Aubrey 
Hambleton Baron. Long Lane... toth January 1622.” With 
fine impression of the GREAT SEAL, 152 mm. in diameter, at- 
tached at bottom fold by original parchment strips. Folded, in 
fitted velvet tray, enclosed in small 4to case, full red straight- 
grain morocco, gilt lettered, By SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE. 


[See Illustration on third page following] 


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ROYAL LETTERS PATENT, WITH GREAT SEAL, 1610 


Reduced Facsimile 
[No. 25] 


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ILLUMINATED LEAF 
Persian, X Vito CENTURY 


/ } 0.0027. EMPRESS NOOR JAHAN. Leaf of heavy paper from a 16th 
Century Persian Manuscript, 336 by 229 mm., containing minia- 
ture portrait of the Empress Noor Jahan, 169 by 99 mm. inside 
the borders. Full length figure, robed in gold and red, face in pro- 
file with golden cap on her head, a floral branch or scepter in her 
hand. Standing on white marble balcony with carved balustrade, 
back of which are colored flowers and a large tree. With frame of 
black and gold, and broad outer floral border in gold with touches 
of color. Matted. 

Companion piece to the following portrait of Prince Dara Shikoh. Both 


pieces are in excellent state of preservation, and are beautiful examples of 
early Persian Illumination. VERY RARE. 


ILLUMINATED LEAF 
Persian, XVItH CENTURY 


/ / 0.0028. PRINCE DARA SHIKOH, SON OF SHAH JAHAN. Leaf of 
heavy paper from a 16th Century Persian Manuscript, 342 by 
237 mm., containing miniature of the Prince Dara Shikoh and 
three attendants, 180 by 120 mm. inside the borders. Shows the 
Prince in profile, seated, cap, robe and chair in gold and red, with 
two attendants in front and one behind him, clothed in various 
colors, a Persian carpet in vivid red and other colors, on the floor, 
white marble balustrade beautifully carved, and a portion of the 
side wall of the house in white with delicate design in colors, door- 
way in black and gold, and canopy in gold and colors. Beyond is 
a view of water and fields. Framed in blue and gold, with broad 
outer floral border in gold, blue and red. Matted. 

Companion piece to the preceding portrait of the Empress Noor Jahan. 


ILLUMINATED LEAF ON VELLUM 
FrencH, XII[tTH Century 


50-0029. Fragment of a VELLUM LEAF from a 13th Century French Manu- 
script Hore, consisting of an initial letter “N,” 108 by 104 mm., 
containing miniature of the Saviour with gold crown and scepter, 
seated, a woman, probably meant for the Virgin, standing back 
of his chair, an angel leading forth a saint from the door of a castle 
on the opposite side, painted in subdued tones upon a vivid blue 
diapered ground, with a beautiful gothic arch surrounding the 
picture. The initial in red and pink over the same blue diapered 
background, gold fillet border. Matted. 


ONE OF THE EARLY AND VERY BEAUTIFUL MINIATURES SO HIGHLY PRIZED 
BY COLLECTORS. 


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ENGLISH DOCUMENT—JAMES 1ST 
LICENSE OF ALIENATION, 1622 
Reduced Facsimile 


[No. 26] 


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ILLUMINATED LEAF ON VELLUM 
Frencu, XVTH CENTURY 


5 0| 00% VELLUM LEAF from a 15th Century French Manuscript Hore, 


§ 0 \003!. 


206 by 154 mm., with beautiful miniature of the Resurrection, 
110 by 77 mm. ‘Painted in delicate colors heightened with gold, 
with burnished gold fillet border. Below the miniature is a large 
initial letter “D,” two smaller capitals and three line-ends in 
burnished gold, blue and red, with five lines of manuscript text, 
and enclosing the miniature and text on three sides is an exquisite 
border of burnished gold with conventionalized leaf design in 
red and blue, extended into larger colored floral designs at the four 
corners. Outside this gold band is a full border in ivy-leaf pat- 
tern in burnished gold broken by a few flowers in colors, com- 
pletely surrounding the page, and of unusual width and beauty. 
The reverse of the leaf is blank, except for one line of writing in 
red. Matted. 


Judging from the great beauty of this leaf, the book from which it was 
taken must have been one of the finest specimens of the miniaturist’s art of the 
period. 


ILLUMINATED LEAF ON VELLUM 
FiemisH, XVtH CENTURY 


VELLUM LEAF from a 15th Century Flemish Manuscript Anti- 


phonal, 462 by 303 mm., with large illuminated initial letter “P,” 
containing miniature of the Nativity in upper section of the letter, 
108 by 123 mm. The Virgin in blue with burnished gold halo, 
the rest of the painting in green and other less brilliant tones, 
heightened with gold, the initial letter in vivid blue heightened 
with white, with outer border of miniature in finely burnished gold 
edged with red. Below this and extending from the lower portion 
of the initial is a second beautiful miniature, 60 by 210 mm. 
depicting a pastoral scene, with the Christ-Child, a mitred bishop 
and two saints, animals, etc., painted in delicate greens, ochres 
and natural colors. The other three sides of the page are bordered 
with a charming floral design in exquisite colorings, and burnished 
gold, containing figures of St. Agnes, St. Andrew, two nuns and an 
angel, also a peacock and other birds. Inlaid in bristol board and 
matted. 


ILLUMINATED LEAF ON VELLUM 
FiemisH, XVtH CENTURY 


70\0032. VELLUM LEAF from a 15th Century Flemish Manuscript Anti- 


phonal, 500 by 342 mm., with large illuminated initial letter “R,” 
152 by 170 mm., containing miniature of the Resurrection painted 
in delicate colors, touched with gold, the initial in vivid blue 

[ Continued 


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[No. 32. VELLUM LEAF. Flemish XVth Century.—Continued] 


A a ER RRS RR “Stir sca SNR 


heightened with white, with outer border of burnished gold. The 
page entirely surrounded with a beautiful border of unusual width, 
measuring 2I mm. at inner, 42 mm. at outer, 32 mm. at top, and 60 
mm. at bottom margin, consisting of flowers, fruits, birds and fig- 
ures in blue and gold, the lower section broken by two more small 
miniatures of charming design and coloring. Inlaid on bristol board 
mat. 


ILLUMINATED LEAF ON VELLUM 
Traian, XVItH CENTURY 


U5) 0033. VELLUM LEAF from a 16th Century Italian Manuscript Antiphonal, 


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530 by 376 mm., with large illuminated initial letter “A,” 170 by 165 
mm., exclusive of outer border, containing miniature of St. Thomas 
praying. Painted in green and red, with burnished gold halo, ona 
vivid blue ground heightened with white, initial in mauve, bur- 
nished gold outer band and fine border in large foliate design in 
burnished gold and colors. 


BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF ITALIAN ILLUMINATION. 


ILLUMINATED LEAF ON VELLUM 
ITaLiaAn, XVItH CENTURY 


70] 0034. VELLUM LEAF from a 16th Century Italian Manuscript Anti- 


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phonal, 580 by 395 mm., with large illuminated initial letter “O,” 
135 by 122 mm., exclusive of outer border, containing miniature 
of a Saint, seated, in meditation. Painted in rose, violet and 
blue, with beautifully burnished gold border surrounding the 
initial, and foliate marginal border in burnished gold and colors. 


ILLUMINATED LEAVES ON VELLUM 
SpaNIsH, XVITH CENTURY 


OUR VELLUM LEAVES from a 16th Century Spanish Manu- 
script Antiphonal, averaging 555 by. 385 mm., each containing 
large illuminated initial letter, averaging 105 by 115 mm. Painted 
in gold, silver and colors. Each with elaborate borders of saints, 
grotesque figures, animals, birds, flowers, and fruits, in colors and 
burnished gold. Very beautiful leaves. 


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IMPORTANT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE BOOKS 


es) 0036. AMERICAN BOOK PRICES CURRENT. Livincston (LUTHER 
S.), Pausits (Victor HuGo), AND Dvett (C. E.)—Editors. Ameri- 
can Book-Prices Current. From volume I (1895) to volume 24 
(1918) inclusive. Together, 24 vols. 8vo, red buckram, gilt, gilt 
tops, as issued. New York, 1895-1918 


Limited issue of each volume. 


45\0037. ENGLISH BOOK PRICES CURRENT. S ater (J. H.—Editor.) 
Book-Prices Current. A Record of the Prices at which Books have 

been sold at Auction, 1886 to 1912, Vols. 1 to 26 (lacking Vol. 25, 

for the year I9QII). 25 vols. 1888-1912; [ALSO] Index to Book- 

Prices Current, 1887-1896, 1897-1906. 2 vols. I90I—1909. I vol., 

half calf, 26 vols. original cloth as issued. Together, 27 vols. 8vo. 

London, 1888-1912 


/7\5038. ASTLE (THOMAS). The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well 
Hieroglyphic as Elementary ... also some Account of the 
Origin and Progress of Printing. Second Edition, with additions. 
Portratt and 31 full-page plates, exhibiting some hundred of engraved 
facsimiles from marbles, manuscripts and charters. Folio, full 
brown morocco, gilt panelled back, gilt edges, BY J. WRIGHT, 


binding slightly worn on edges. | London, 1803 
LARGE PAPER Copy, of which 100 copies were printed. The best book on 
the subject. 


Bookplate of Samuel Chick. 


15 0039. BURGER (KONRAD). Supplement zu Hain und Panzer. Bei- 
trage zur Inkunabelbibliographie. Nummernconcordanz von 
Panzers lateinischen und deutschen Annalen und Ludwig Hains 
Repertorium bibliographicum. 8vo, half maroon crushed levant 
morocco, gilt top, uncut, original wrappers bound in, BY ZAEHNS- 
DORF. Leipzig, 1908 


7| 0040. DE RICCI (SEYMOUR). A Census of Caxtons. Wzth facsimiles 
of printed pages. 4to, original wrappers, uncut. 
[Oxford:] Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1909 
Illustrated Monographs of the Bibliographical Society, No. XV. 


/2.5041. DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL). Bibliomania, or, Book Mad- 
ness. A Bibliographical Romance. Wzuth woodcuts. 2 vols. in 
one, 8vo, full green straight-grain morocco, sides with gilt and 
blind framework, gilt panelled back, gilt edges. London, 1811 

Fine copy of the scarce Second Edition, with the additional Vol. 2 title, 
and leaf of “Errata.” Inserted is an etched caricature portrait of Dr. Gossett. 
Bookplate of Dudley C. Marjoribanks. 


Under the Management of the American Art Association 


Kindly read the Conditions of Sale Printed in forepart of this catalogue 


45\0042. DUFF (E. GORDON). William Caxton. Illustrated with numer- 
ous fine reproductions, including one of a binding with Caxton’s des. 

Ato, boards, cloth back, paper label, uncut. Chicago, 1905 

CAXTON CLUB PUBLICATION. One of 252 copies on hand-made paper. 


With an original leaf of the First Edition of the Canterbury Tales, printed 
| by Caxton, laid in pocket on back cover. 


30043. GUIGARD (JOANNIS). Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile, Guide 

. de |’Amateur des Livres Armoriés. Wuth numerous text tllustra- 
tions. 2 vols. royal 8vo, half morocco, panelled backs, gilt tops, 
uncut. Paris, 1890 


90.0044. HAIN (LUDOVIC). Repertorium Bibliographicum, in quo libri 
| omnes ab arte Typographica inventa usque ad annum MD. 4 
vols. 8vo, full old polished calf, gilt panelled backs, gilt tops, 
uncut, two volumes neatly rebacked, the original backs being pre- 

served, joints of other two volumes cracked. 


Stuttgartiae, 1826-1838 
VERY SCARCE. Printed on bluish paper. 


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| 45. HAIN-COPINGER. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium Biblio- 

; graphicum, or, Collections Towards a New Edition of that Work. 

| 3 vols. 8vo, half maroon morocco, gilt panelled backs, contents 

. lettered, gilt tops, uncut, BY ZAEHNSDORF. London,-1895—1902 

This work is divided into two parts, Part II comprising two volumes. 

Part I contains nearly 7000 corrections of and additions to the collation of 
works described or mentioned by Hain; Part II contains a list with numerous 
collations and Bibliographical particulars of nearly 6000 volumes printed in 

the 15th Century, not referred to by Hain. 

: 


oe 5046. HUMPHREYS (H. NOEL) A History of the Art of Printing from 
its Invention to its Wide-spread Development in the Middle of the 

| Sixteenth Century. Preceded by a short Account of the Origin of 
the Alphabet, and of the Successive Methods of Recording Events 

) before the Invention of Printing. Second Issue. Wazth 100 full- 
page facsimiles in photolithography. Small folio, cloth, uncut, a 

few plates loose. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868 


//0\0047. MARTIN (F.R.). The Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia, 
India and Turkey, from the 8th to the 18th Century. Wzth more 
| than 270 full-page plates, some with more than one subject, a few 
plates in colors, and numerous illustrations in the text. 2 vols. folio, 
) cloth, gilt tops, uncut. London, I912 

Volume 1, text; Volume 2, plates and descriptions, 


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ee; 20 20 48. REICHLING (DIETERICUS—Editor). Appendices ad Hainii- 
Copingeri Repertorium Bibliographicum. Additiones et Emen- 

dationes. 6 vols. in 2, 8vo, half roan, purple edges. 
Monachii, 1905-1911 


75 0049. SILVESTRE (J. B.). Universal Paleography: or Fac-Similes of 
Writings of all Nations and Periods. Copied from the most 
Celebrated and Authentic Manuscripts in the Libraries and Ar- 
chives of France, Italy, Germany and England, by M. J. B. 
Silvestre, accompanied by an Historical and Descriptive Text 
and Introduction, by Champollion-Figeac and Aimé Champollion, 
fils. Translated from the French, and edited, with Corrections 
and Notes, by Sir Frederic Madden, Keeper of the Department 
of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Wzth upwards of 300 
large and most beautifully executed facsimiles taken from Mtssals 
and other manuscripts, most richly tlluminated in the finest style of 
art. 2 vols. 8vo of text, and 2 vols. atlas folio of plates. Together, 
4 vols. half green morocco, gilt panelled backs, gilt tops, uncut, 
BY BAIN. London: Bohn, 1849-1850 


A sumptuous publication, and one of the finest works of its kind ever pub- 
lished; and most interesting to the scholar and the man of taste. The finest 
possible specimens are given of MSS. in every European and Oriental language. 
The number of reproductions of Miniatures is very large. The work was very 
costly in getting up, and the expense was chiefly defrayed by Louis Philippe 
of France, who subscribed at the outset for sixty copies at £75 each. 


50. THOMPSON (SIR EDWARD MAUNDE). An Introduction to 
Greek and Latin Palaeography. Wzth about 250 facsimiles. 8vo, 
cloth, partly uncut. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912 


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